In this instance, the extract is from Act 1, Scene 7 where Lady Macbeth is questioning her husband's masculinity and his commitment to following through with his plan to murder King Duncan and ...

a far cry from the old stand-and-sing style of opera. It is, at times, a brutal vision, with some typically offstage violence (such as the Macbeth/McDuff sword fight) played out on center stage. Sara ...

Elisabeth Stöppler’s new production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf takes as its starting point the numbing ...

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A spokesperson for the production, which features Tennant and Cush Jumbo as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth ... in the tragedy’s “every whisper, cry and thought”, organisers say.

When we first meet Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s best-known and often-staged tragedies, she seems designed to steal the show. Her speeches are riveting, her emotions keyed up and ...

Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue ...

Hearing about his family, he drops to the ground crying, then rises up again, swearing vengeance. Costume Designer Sally Boyett and Wig Designer Tommy Malek evoke the era with tricornered hats, long, ...

The premiere of 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District' on Wednesday featured this novel addition to the stage but it did not distract from a work which tells the dramatic story of its heroine ...