WOJCZUK: Our modern version of Lady Macbeth has a sort of secret history, and it starts in sort of the mid-nineteenth century around 1834, and previously, the role had been played very feminine, very ...

On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...

Poor Macbeth. Henpecked, manipulated and always upstaged by his wife. Who would have thought Shakespeare’s most murderous villain would continue to take a back seat to one of literature’s fabulous ...

The Russian star soprano appeared in her first staged opera in Germany since the Ukraine invasion, still under fire for her past support for President Vladimir V. Putin. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting ...

FILE - Anna Netrebko, opera singer, gestures during the final applause at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden after singing Lady Macbeth in the performance of "Macbeth," in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept.

MILAN (AP) — Milanese turned out in all their finery for La Scala’s gala season opener of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in a fully seated theater, a welcome return after the pandemic made last year’s premiere a ...