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	Macbeth (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave with additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.
		The witches hail Macbeth as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King 'hereafter'.
		Macbeth is then shown the ghost of Banquo and his descendants, eight future Kings of Scotland, verifying the original prophecy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macbeth_(opera) (880 words)

	MSN Encarta - Macbeth (play)
		Macbeth, who is already a hero because of his skill as a soldier, cannot rest with his knowledge of the prophecy but instead takes fate into his own hands.
		Macbeth and his wife feel compelled to protect the station promised them by the witches, and to thwart the heirs of Banquo and any other possible heirs.
		Macbeth and his wife are repulsed and torn by their own behavior, and they both seem to verge on hallucination and madness as they recoil from the mayhem they have created around them.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552100/Macbeth_(play).html (415 words)

	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Леди Макбет Мценского уезда in Russian, Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uyezda in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich to a Russian libretto by Alexander Preis and the composer, inspired by and named after the famous story by Nikolai Leskov.
		The thrust of the Pravda criticism was in terms of morality; it condemned the opera's sympathetic portrayal of the murderess.
		Taruskin, Richard; "The Opera and the Dictator: the peculiar martyrdom of Dmitri Shostakovich"; The New Republic, March 20 1989 pp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady_Macbeth_of_the_Mtsensk_District_(opera) (675 words)

	Falstaff (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falstaff is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor.
		It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's eighth decade, and only the second of his twenty-six operas to be a comedy.
		It was also the third of Verdi's operas to be based on a Shakespearean play, and like his first adaptation of the English playwright, Macbeth, it concludes with a fugue, the famous "Tutto nel mondo è burla" ("All the world's a joke").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falstaff_(opera) (836 words)

	Eclectic talents join HGO for primal encounter with `Macbeth'
		Essentially, it is Macbeth, his wife and the witches who fuel the drama: A general yearns to be king of Scotland while his wife doubts he has the ruthlessness needed to gain the throne.
		Macbeth murders Duncan and Banquo, and Banquo's ghost appears at a state banquet to unhinge his mind.
		One example she cites is the monologue during which Macbeth encounters a vision of a bloody dagger.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/music/cover/1012opera.html (1248 words)

	MacBeth, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macbeth represented northern elements in the population who were opposed to the ties with the Saxons advocated by Duncan.
		Macbeth was defeated in 1054 by Siward, earl of Northumbria, who regained the southern part of Scotland on behalf of Malcolm Canmore, Duncan's son.
		Fantasizing infanticide: Lady Macbeth and the murdering mother in early modern England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Macbeth.asp (374 words)

	Seattle Opera
		Macbeth and his friend Banquo, generals in King Duncan’s army, are crossing a desolate heath when they are greeted by three witches.
		Once again, when she learns of the witches’ prophecies, Lady Macbeth counsels her husband to be resolute, to murder Macduff and his family, and to continue to seek Banquo’s son.
		Macbeth finally confronts Macduff, who tells Macbeth how he was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb and was not “of woman born.” All the prophecies for Macbeth’s defeat are fulfilled, and Macduff kills Macbeth.
	www.seattleopera.org /operas/2005-2006/macbeth/synopsis.aspx (520 words)

	POC - Macbeth - The Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the role of Macbeth, the Pocket Opera was able to win the Russian baritone, Oleg Malikov, who has sung with the Bolschoi-Opera in Moscow, as well as made guest appearances with the Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
		The trumpet's military connotations in an opera dominated by war and bloodshed are obvious.
		Macbeth himself worries about what will be told of him in the future, and it is the bardic harpist, the playwright, and the opera composer who will do the telling.
	www.pocket-opera.com /en/pr/re/macbeth/oper.html (478 words)

	Kinoeye \| Italian Horror: Dario Argento's Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Opera is redolent with references from past gialli such as L'uccelo dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, 1970) while foreshadowing his most recent one, Non ho sonno (Sleepless, 2000).
		In Opera, the killer lovingly glides his knife along the televised image of Betty (Christina Marsillach), the young opera star of Verdi's Macbeth, as though he were touching her body with his phallus, equating sexual pleasure with pain.
		Opera's equation of pleasure and pain is made patently clear in a series of four major flashbacks or "subjective inserts"[3] paralleling those of Peter Neal in Tenebre (a film whose Italian title, Sotto gli occhi dell'assassino / Under the Eyes of the Assassin, accentuates the voyeurism) which take on the aspect of a film-within-the-film.
	www.kinoeye.org /02/12/sevastakis12.php (2446 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Macbeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among the greatest of Verdi's operas are the three operas he based on plays of Shakespeare: Otello, Falstaff -- with which he crowned his career, and Macbeth -- the first he realized and the one to which he returned after 18 years to rework for a new Paris production.
		He would not allow the opera to be performed at La Scala until "conditions improved." He sent instructions to Naples for the 1848 production, specifying how the procession of ghosts was to be done.
		In 1852 he made it a condition for a new opera for Paris that Macbeth be presented in the same season, but this plan did not materialize.
	www.operaworld.com /special/mac1.shtml (765 words)

	Verdi Macbeth OPERA RARA ORCV 301 [RF]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is the case with Macbeth, originally his tenth opera and very much a ‘risorgimento’ work, complete with a nationalist chorus.
		Macbeth was revised by Verdi for the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, where it was first produced on 19 April 1865 after Verdi had spent most of the previous winter working on the re-composition including the required ballet.
		The characterisation of the facets of Macbeth, his grasping at the prospects of the crown, complicity in murder and then disintegration and resignation to death are fully conveyed, but the voice itself is raw in patches, lacking the refulgent generosity of tone he always gave at his peak, and further aggravated by some uneven legato.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Mar04/macbeth.htm (1494 words)

	Verdi's Macbeth
		Entire operas were written with specific singers in mind: Bellini's Norma for Giuditta Pasta, Verdi's Rigoletto for Varesi, II Corsaro for the baritone Ronconi; and when it came for Verdi to write Ernani he had been prompted to write the opera because, as he put it, a "prima donna" opera was needed.
		Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are anarchical to the core.
		Macbeth, in comparison, is a rather pale figure (contrary to Shakespeare): he rarely behaves independently of his wife.
	www.plumsite.com /aevecchio/macbeth.htm (1375 words)

	11lady macbeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Lady Macbeth, the first crime leads to all the rest and Katerina Izmailova, feeling herself sullied by the blood she has shed so many times, could ask, like Shakespeare’s character: “Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”.
		In the opera this tone –that of a true-to-life, horrifying, moralizing chronicle– is replaced by a viewpoint closer to that of the main character.
		This opera was born, blossomed and died, theatrically speaking, around the birth, satisfaction and eclipse of Shostakovich’s love for Nina Vasar, to whom, indeed, he gave the manuscript.
	www.amicsliceu.com /temp0102/ang/a11ladymacbeth.html (4074 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The opera was the catalyst which set into motion the subjugation of all Soviet artists to the creative control of the Communist Party.
		Two years after its premiere, the opera had been performed close to 200 times---and in many countries throughout the world---and was hailed as the first major Soviet opera.
		Lady Macbeth disappeared from the repertory as a work not worthy of the Soviet people, and Shostakovich's opera became the quintessential example of "formalism," a type of art that all artists were to reject if they wanted to avoid the suppression of their works, a trip to the Gulag, or a sudden disappearance.
	www.operaworld.com /special/mtensk.shtml (1174 words)

	Singapore Lyric Opera: VERDI Macbeth - 20 Apr 2001 - INKPOT
		To put it directly: Verdi's music for his opera Macbeth is frivolously cheerful, for what is without a shadow of a doubt one of the Western literary canon's darkest and most psychologically terrifying works, dealing with nothing less than cold-blooded murder, guilt and psychosis.
		Some of the most stirring moments of the opera came from the combined choral efforts between choir and main vocal cast, such as the ending of the first and last acts, where the soloists' concentrated voices are framed and supported by the massed choir.
		Verdi's music for this opera appears to centre on the triumph of good over evil, and as such he makes a big fuss over the final scene, which is ostensibly his "big climax".
	inkpot.com /concert/slo01macbeth.html (1442 words)

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		The arrival of the King at Macbeth's castle was represented by four pennants moving across the stage behind the set, visible between the first and second balconies as the sliding doors opened in sequence.
		Although some of Verdi's music is an unexciting play for individual orchestra members, the sight of three of the wind instrumentalists sitting side by side with their chins glumly held in their hands during one of the arias perhaps summed up the lack of fire that the orchestra as a whole brought to this performance.
		She firmly kept Macbeth on the straight and narrow path of rampant ambition, although her degeneration into a guilt ridden suicide in the sleepwalking scene was perhaps too dynamic - a fault more of the direction than Miss Broderick's acting.
	www.rbcdl.org.uk /opera/opreviews/macbeth.html (825 words)

	Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lady Macbeth reads the letter from her husband that announces the coming of Duncan, who is murdered as he sleeps.
		In the second act Macbeth, jealous of the future prophesied for Banquo's posterity, goes on to procure the murder of Banquo, whose ghost appears to haunt him.
		A cry of women marks the death of Lady Macbeth and her husband is killed in single combat with Macduff.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Macbeth(Giuseppe_Verdi).htm (397 words)

	classical music - andante - verdi in the gulag
		Opera houses in imperial Russia, and in St. Petersburg particularly, had the most eclectic repertory of any in the world.
		After the 1917 Revolution, the balance shifted in favor of Russian opera, but Soviet opera houses continued to be noted for the diversity of their offerings.
		This was the only opera in the Kirov's five stage presentations at the Lincoln Center Festival in which Gergiev and his superb orchestra were less than consistently thrilling and in which the conductor's characteristically no-holds-barred pace occasionally sounded rushed and obscured the shape of the music.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21649 (907 words)

	Macbeth Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macbeth's castle; Lady Macbeth learns about her husband's news from a letter he has sent her.
		Opera Verdi Europa exemplifies the vibrancy and sophistication of Bulgarian opera.
		Naydenova was appointed stage director at the State Opera House of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and later was appointed Assistant in Opera Direction and Acting at the New Bulgarian University (‘04).
	web.jccc.net /carlsencenter/macbeth_program.htm (2585 words)

	Welcome to Opera Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macbeth is conducted by James Meena, stage directed by Jay Lesenger and features Metropolitan Opera (debut 2004-05 season) artist Mark Rucker as Macbeth and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Paris Opera, as Lady Macbeth.
		Macbeth is the first time Verdi attempted to set a work of Shakespeare –; the greatest challenge of all for any composer.
		Opera Carolina is supported by the Arts and Science Council-Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc. The North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, also supports Opera Carolina.
	www.operacarolina.org /pr/bard.asp (1288 words)

	Verdi's Classic Vital Again
		In a country where only a handful of the best-known Verdi operas are performed, "Macbeth" is a true rarity, just as it was in the West until singers like Maria Callas, Leonie Rysanek and Leonard Warren turned their attentions to it in the 1950s.
		So, it is no surprise that his updated staging has Macbeth and Banquo make their initial entrances in combat fatigues and that the witches cavort in hot pants and body stockings.
		The role of Lady Macbeth is notoriously demanding, and it must be said that, at times during the performance, one feared for the vocal well-being of the young soprano Svetlana Sozdateleva.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/05/12/109-print.html (781 words)

	Floridian: Two versions of 'Macbeth' trace Verdi's musicianship
		The opera is another of Verdi's Shakespearean adaptations, but this time it's a tragedy, Macbeth, written relatively early in the composer's career.
		Sarasota will perform two versions of Macbeth: the standard version, which is the product of Verdi's revision in 1865, and in two performances near the end of season, the 1847 original, which is almost never performed anymore.
		For example, Macbeth's death aria in the original, Mal per me che m'affidai, is potent stuff, but it was dropped in the revision.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/02/02/news_pf/Floridian/Two_versions_of__Macb.shtml (985 words)

	Bolshoi Stages Russo-Italian Macbeth - PRAVDA.Ru
		Macbeth is yet another sign of change underway at the Bolshoi.
		Macbeth is an opera "hired" from Italy, as it was staged by Maggio Musicale of Florence and Teatro Massimo of Palermo last season.
		In Moscow, the operatic version of Macbeth was rehearsed with world-famous Russian singers, and Italian conductor and composer Marcello Panni, who has often performed at the La Scala and Metropolitan Opera theatres, as well as the Vienna, Rome and Paris opera houses.
	english.pravda.ru /science/19/95/380/11036_theatre.html (1258 words)

	Opera
		Verdi's opera staged by director Eimuntas Nekrosius and conductor Marcello Panni, sets by Marius Nekrosius.
		Pyotr Tchaikovsky's lyric opera about a blind princess who is cured by the love of a man who dares to violate the king's order not to tell the girl of her blindness.
		Igor Stravinsky's light-hearted, one-act opera based on Pushkin's "The House in Kolomna." Tea and cakes are served during the show.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /plain/21052004/opera.html (254 words)

	Amazon.com: Verdi - Macbeth / Sinopoli, Bruson, Zampieri, Deutsche Oper Berlin (2000) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yes, it is a fine Italian opera, but it lacks the verbal richness, the psychological depth, the symbolic resonance, and the subtle characterizations of Shakespeare's tragedy.
		He took great pains for the parts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as well as the chorus of the witches and understood the meaning of the play perfectly which in turn reflected in the characters and the music as well.
		Verdi's 'Macbeth' premiered in Florence's Teatro della Pergola in 1847 is the first of his operas to show his genius n full flight.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561270482?v=glance (1433 words)

	SwissEduc: Shakespeare, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind." Our fondest wishes, but also our most terrifying fears.
		Macbeth, 1971, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jon Finch, Fancesca Annis.
		But macbeths story lines is really interesting and involved and the videos are pretty freaky.
	www.swisseduc.ch /english/readinglist/shakespearew/macbeth.html (523 words)

	OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		oven from the literary genius of William Shakespeare and the musical brilliance of composer Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth is a timeless classic wrought with mystery, madness, deadly premonitions and ambition realized at the highest cost.
		When Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to murder the King in pursuit of ever-climbing personal aspirations, it is the first thread in a web of murder and deceit which ultimately brings about their dramatic and stunning downfalls.
		Lush, majestic choruses and tour-de-force arias frame this masterful work, in its first performance by the Opera Company in more than 15 years.
	www.operaphilly.com /02-03/production4.shtml (94 words)

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		The centerpiece of the classical music portion of this year’s festival is the 20-performance residency of the Kirov Opera at the Met.
		Giuseppe Verdi’s MacBeth, originally premiered in 1847, is one of five productions to be staged by the opera during their three-week stay in New York, and is the only non-Russian work in the repertoire.
		In fact, Verdi’s vision for the role of one of the greatest female villains of all time was that the singer should possess a distorted tone quality, and he often complained about singers approaching it too precisely.
	www.nypress.com /16/28/music/music2.cfm (630 words)

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