The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special ...

Because of an overloaded schedule, I caught the final dress rehearsal of Opera Orlando’s “Macbeth” on Wednesday instead of attending opening night. And unlike Shakespeare’s “Weird Sisters,” I cannot ...

In January 1994, a random electrical spark started a fire that destroyed much of Barcelona’s famous Liceu opera house, once the biggest in Europe. It took until 1999 to rebuild the theatre with a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company started its season performing “Medea,” “Idomeneo” and “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” three of opera’s most distinctive ...

MILAN (AP) — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. La Scala opened its season with Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtensk,” a Russian opera censored by Stalin. Peace ...

With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene. By Oussama Zahr Heartbeat Opera, a small, nimble company that ...

For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. We had season tickets for them, and our ...

Harris' wife-who-would-be-queen is an unstoppable force, her voice soaring with the relentless zeal and appetite of this starkly driven creature for power. Verdi’s Macbeth, which opens Utah Opera’s ...