Verdi’s Macbeth is faithful to the plot of Shakespeare’s play, with the added dimension of music sung in Italian. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – Verdi can be played on original instruments, too. While historically informed performances of Baroque music are not surprising, Will Crutchfield and Teatro Nuovo are using period pieces for ...
This season, they presented a double bill: the 1847 version of Verdi’s Macbeth and Bellini’s beloved La Sonnambula of 1831, which here appears both in original keys and on period instruments. The ...
The opera is presented as a staged revival and features direction by Martin Čičvák and musical direction by conductor Hermann Bäumer. The production brings Verdi’s powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s ...
Macbeth's haunting story is driven at a turbulent pace by a riotous score, unveiling just what happens when this brutal couple follow a prophecy proffered from the depths of hell by three witches ...
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...