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SEATTLE – Seattle Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth,” which debuted Saturday night, is as complex and intricate as Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy of lust for power, betrayal and revenge ...

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Opera offers many stories about this, but trying to spin “Macbeth” into one of them was very much a square-peg-round-hole ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Verdi was a fervent admirer of Shakespeare and was determined his "Macbeth" would have sufficient merit to justify his borrowing of the famous play for his opera. However, Bernard Uzan, stage director ...

Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for ...