Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Verdi and Macbeth
Come along to the Fisher Theatre bar before their screening of the Royal Opera House’s production of Macbeth, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and you will find me talking about Verdi and…
ROH Live Screening: Verdi’s Macbeth
The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives…
Clamorous harbingers of blood and death: Verdi’s Macbeth at Buxton
Buxton International Festival are currently staging Verdi’s first, 1847 Macbeth, written for the Teatro della Pergola, Florence, a theatre similar in size to the Edwardian jewel-box of Buxton’s own Opera House…
So foul and fair a day: Verdi’s Macbeth at Iford
Macbeth’s turbulent emotions and fierce storms make it ironically ideally suited to an English summer evening, as the clouds gather menacingly overhead (although I managed to stay dry at Iford).…
Full of sound and fury: Luke Styles’ Macbeth, Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne’s short opera from Luke Styles sets Macbeth in a modern British army unit deployed, judging by their desert fatigues, somewhere in the Middle East East (so, feel free to…