“Something wicked this way comes …” to Steinmetz Hall as Opera Orlando presents its first MainStage production of the 2024-25 Destiny + Desire season, Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, October 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Imaginative and powerfully delivered, the Washington National Opera’s Macbeth is the opera to drop everything and see. Verdi’s gorgeously dramatic distillation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is already ever ...

Macbeth is an opera that involves prophesying. This implies a degree of inevitability concerning what unfolds, which makes it entirely appropriate to look at the events from the perspective of them ...

Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

This is a fast production. The four acts whizz past with disconcerting speed, starting with Shakespeare’s cackling witches disposing of Lady Macbeth’s miscarried child. It’s a queasy, uncomfortable ...

Few tales of ambition and evil are as enduring as William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and combined with the artistic power and opulence of opera, “the Scottish play” is a timeless and thrilling story. LA ...