When William Mason, the Lyric Opera’s general director, asked Barbara Gaines three years ago to direct Verdi’s Macbeth for 2010’s season opener, she piled on the homework. As the founding artistic ...

The opera takes place in Scotland, and ACT ONE begins in a forest. Macbeth and Banco, two Scottish generals in King Duncan's army, stop to visit with a coven of witches. The witches tell Macbeth that ...

Shakespeare in Delaware Park’s 35th Anniversary Season continues with the opening of Macbeth. As in years past, the selection of plays for the season follows a pattern of producing one of the comedies ...

While much is made of the curse of the Scottish play that holds that saying the name of the play will doom any production, the real curse is that the piece is so rich and mysterious in character and ...