Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are the main characters and their ambition and eventual downfall is key to the storyline. Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into killing the king and she also ...

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 ...

As Macbeth and his wife’s paranoia intensifies, fracturing their reality, their descent into madness leads to an exploration of just how far the human mind can be pushed, and explores who is pulling ...