No literary figure inspired composers more than Shakespeare, and Giuseppe Verdi was hardly tone deaf to the musical possibilities of the famed English bard. In his melodrama Macbeth, Verdi achieves a ...

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...

The opera is presented as a staged revival and features direction by Martin Čičvák and musical direction by conductor Hermann Bäumer. The production brings Verdi’s powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s ...

You get only one chance to make a first impression, and the first sight of Boston Lyric Opera’s recent “Macbeth” was a head-scratcher. The curtain rose to reveal a full stage, the BLO chorus dressed ...

NEW YORK – Verdi can be played on original instruments, too. While historically informed performances of Baroque music are not surprising, Will Crutchfield and Teatro Nuovo are using period pieces for ...

As an internationally known dramatic soprano, Alexandra LoBianco has performed some of the most challenging roles in the repertoire, including Leonore in “Fidelio,” with the Vienna State Opera and ...

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