GIDDENS: Well, thank you so much for taking the time. I'm very excited to get to talk to you. My name is Rhiannon, and I host a podcast on opera called Aria Code. For every episode we focus on one ...

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 ...

Macbeth is not a story of happiness. Success begets greed, violence escalates, and blood once shed demands more and more, even as guilt devours. All of these are greatly heightened in Verdi’s operatic ...

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 ...