Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.

Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano's masterpiece, a title that opens the Piermarini's 2017/2018 opera ...

The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...

Elton and his band are accompanied by London's Royal Academy of Music Orchestra and Choir, performin...

The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two...

The action of the film is built on Macbeth's thought process, in which he again goes through past ev...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme ...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their...

John Copley's enduring production of one of the most famously melodious and popular of all operas is...

Michele Anacondia is a criminal on the fringes of the Apulian mafia, whose wife pushes him to achiev...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production,...

A theater actor who is taking a part as Macbeth finds himself lost in the role.

A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival's lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Riz...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Macbeth" staged by Dario Argento, directed by Marco Scalfi.

Envy and conspiracy, but also passionate loves, jealousy, revenge and final forgiveness come togethe...

Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by C...