One of York's cinemas is showing live performances of operas from the Met in New York. But what's it like going to see an opera at the flicks? Nick Lawrence went to see Verdi's Macbeth at York's City ...
Shakespeare-loving Verdi began his operatic love affair with the Bard with his tenth opera, Macbeth, composed in 1847. "This tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man... If we can't make ...
Glyndebourne On Tour continue its Norwich residency with a psychologically powerful and sober production of Verdi's opera Macbeth - the second performance at the refurbished Theatre Royal since it ...
This is the final Opera in English recording to be sponsored by the Peter Moores Foundation, which is now being wound up. Whatever one thinks of the value or wisdom of performing this familiar text in ...
Maxine Braham, best known as a choreographer, stages Verdi’s earliest Shakespearean opera for Hampshire’s Grange Festival – and the results are largely mixed. A small pile of large volumes is placed ...
Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 staging of Verdi’s Macbeth is prematurely looking like a parody of itself - an exhibit in one of designer Anthony Ward’s gilded display cases. But it’s sounding rather terrific ...
The day before I saw Verdi’s Macbeth at Covent Garden, I had watched on television the finals of the Glyndebourne Cup in which the world’s finest young opera singers were performing Mozart arias in ...
The Royal Opera House has been sluggish and tentative in its emergence from pandemic sleep. It’s so nervous about getting bums back on seats that it’s giving 13 performances of its most dependable ...
Verdi’s Macbeth is not so much the ‘Scottish play’ as an essay on political ambition: there isn’t really a cauldron, and the weird sisters are the entire female chorus. He wrote some fantastic music ...
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