Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Martin Kusej's new production of Verdi's Lady Macbeth just went balls2thewall @ die Bayerische Staatsoper, leaving critics shocked & awed. Shirley Apthorp reports for Bloomberg, and recounts a performance ripe with naked supers, exposed breasts, fake blood, orgies, and lesbians....
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Literature is a wellspring for all the arts. Writing is one of the older art forms more mature than films, sound recordings and so on. Shakespeare was the fountain for Verdi's Macbeth, and the James Whale and Kenneth Branagh adaptations of ...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
In the NYRB, Stephen Greenblatt on Rupert Goold's Macbeth (which was brilliant) and Adrian Noble's version of Verdi's Macbeth: [T]he Stalinist setting does something more than provide an instance of modern tyranny; it closes off the vistas of hope that...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
By Stephen Greenblatt Macbeth a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Rupert Goold Macbeth an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Adrian Noble In the company of Banquo, King Duncan arrives in great good spirits at the castle of his principal thane Macbeth to whose dauntless military prowess he owes the survival of his reign. Duncan knows nothing of the 'weird sisters' who have prophesied that Macbeth...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
By JOEL LOBENTHAL [NY Sun, 15 May 2008] This Saturday night, German bass René Pape closes out the Metropolitan Opera’s season singing Banquo in Verdi’s “Macbeth,” an interpretation he introduced to New York audiences last week. The following afternoon finds him at Carnegie Hall singing Russian repertory by Mussorgsky with the Met Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev.
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
I didn't see the "first cast" that opened this new production of Verdi's Macbeth earlier in the Metropolitan Opera season. In fact, Macbeth hadn't even been on my calendar, but the need to exchange tickets late in the season resulted...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
It is Tuesday, May 13 and here are some things on today's agenda: Mets vs. Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m. at Shea Kanye West plays Madison Square Garden Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met Opera Municipal Art Society panel: Moynihan Station:...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Adrian Noble’s production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” returned to the Met with new singers in the four main roles.
DATA news (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
With two gripping productions of “Macbeth” in New York right now, the good news is, there’s no need to choose.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Lay on Macduff - and Banquo, too.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
With two gripping productions of “Macbeth” in New York right now, the good news is, there’s no need to choose.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Tim Albery's intriguing new production of Verdi's Macbeth has a 1940s feel to it, suggestive more of a wintry Eastern-bloc borderland than Scotland. It's the first of Opera North's spring season of three Shakespeare-inspired operas, created on one multi-purpose set with shared design elements, and so far Johan Engels has proved that "scenic-lite" doesn't mean less.
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
BY GEORGE LOOMIS [NY Sun, 17 March 2008] Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday is five years away, but it looks as though the baritone Thomas Hampson is celebrating early. His operatic docket this season includes Verdi operas exclusively — "Macbeth" in San Francisco, "Don Carlo" in Vienna, "La Traviata" in Chicago and Zurich. And he makes his debut as Don Carlo in "Ernani" tonight when the hot-blooded Romantic...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 25/01/2008
Micha Van Oeche's staging (photo above) of Verdi's Macbeth in Oviedo opens tomorrow night at Campoamor theatre; Carlos Alvarez is Macbeth, Tatjana Serjan the Lady, Miguel Ortega conducts, Japanese horror cinema (below) fans rejoice.
