WEST BAY OPERA, a small company performing in a small theater, is unfailingly big on quality. “Macbeth” is not a huge audience draw anywhere, yet opera lovers are much poorer for not having ...

Following the sell-out success of Wagner's epic Das Rheingold at The Regent in February, Melbourne Opera will stage an inspired new production of Giuseppe Verdi's thrilling Macbeth at Her Majesty's ...

Verdi's opera is every bit as dark and bloody as Shakespeare's drama on which it was based. It is true to the original play in most details of plot and character, yet it differs in significant ...

On a dark and dreary night, a medieval Scottish king is stabbed to death in his sleep while a guest at the castle of one of his leading vassals. This act of regicide by his host, while fulfilling the ...

That comes from the dazzlingly gifted Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, who stepped in at the last minute to make her premature Royal Opera debut as an all-encompassing Aida earlier this year ...

This is a fast production. The four acts whizz past with disconcerting speed, starting with Shakespeare’s cackling witches disposing of Lady Macbeth’s miscarried child. It’s a queasy, uncomfortable ...

There are plenty of differences between Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Verdi’s opera of the same name — like, why settle for just three witches when you can have an entire chorus of them? — yet perhaps ...

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