Because of an overloaded schedule, I caught the final dress rehearsal of Opera Orlando’s “Macbeth” on Wednesday instead of attending opening night. And unlike Shakespeare’s “Weird Sisters,” I cannot ...
The other big idea here is the witches. Verdi expands Shakespeare’s three witches to a whole choir. Lloyd extends that idea further by having the witches behind the scenes at all times, delivering ...
No literary figure inspired composers more than Shakespeare, and Giuseppe Verdi was hardly tone deaf to the musical ...
Macbeth is not a story of happiness. Success begets greed, violence escalates, and blood once shed demands more and more, even as guilt devours. All of these are greatly heightened in Verdi’s operatic ...
The 32-year old Verdi was taking a risk when he wrote Macbeth for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1846. All of his operas until then had been grounded in fact or history, and indulging in the ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The festival’s choice this year was among the more arcane: Macbeth in a critical edition of the now-standard 1865 ...
It would not be sensible to stage Verdi’s Macbeth too literally nowadays, and the power of Phyllida Lloyd’s production for the Royal Opera lies in her combination of retaining the essential plot and ...
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