While the restrained staging invited intimacy and allowed the supporting cast’s arias to shine, the production often faltered under its own minimalism.

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The set (designer Anthony Ward) is a foreshortened metallic box, from which the back often rises to reveal a stormy sky (for the witches) or to introduce large scale props. The most memorable of these ...

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 ...

David Angus leads a taut, spirited performance, but Steve Maler’s staging of Verdi's first Shakespearean opera raises many ...

I found the current Lincoln Center production of Macbeth rather dissatisfying. But not as dissatisfying as I found Ben Brantley’s review thereof. Not that I disagree with all of Brantley’s complaints, ...

Opera offers many stories about this, but trying to spin “Macbeth” into one of them was very much a square-peg-round-hole ...

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It can be interesting to re-visit a production that you’ve seen before, let alone one you’ve actually put pen to paper about. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Macbeth was last seen in 2006 and my review ...