MIDGETTE: Verdi has a magnificent dramatic sensibility, and he was also a very astute portrayer of women. Shakespeare was a touchstone for him, and Lady Macbeth is a particularly interesting figure.

Giuseppe Verdi’s lifelong love for Shakespeare resulted in three exceptional operas. Because the last two, Otello and Falstaff, turned out to be among the greatest works in the entire repertoire, the ...

Two years ago, Todd Thomas opened the Sarasota Opera season with a memorable performance in the title role of Falstaff, Verdi's last opera and only comedy. His expressive baritone was touching in ...

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 ...

MONTREAL Verdi s Macbeth certainly isn t Shakespeare s Macbeth but the music is powerful and beautiful. The Opéra de Montréal has opened a production of Verdi s 1847 opera, with the Orchestre ...

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 ...

Verdi was an inveterate rewriter of his operas, especially when they were bound for Paris, the center of Western culture in the 19th century, after their premieres in Italy. For one thing, Parisian ...

The chill of murder dominates "Macbeth." At least for Cynthia Edwards, stage director for Verdi's operatic version of Shakespeare's tragedy, which runs through next Sunday. "I went for a very northern ...