Michael Mayes leads the cast as Macbeth, the Scottish general who becomes king after murdering the reigning monarch. Mayes is a villain with a velvet-smooth baritone — his big Act IV aria was ...

The modern-dress show opens not with Scottish lord Macbeth putting down the Thane of Cawdor’s rebellion against King Duncan and then encountering three witches, but with his wife Lady Macbeth ...

Lady Macbeth:Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? From this time such I account thy love.

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 ...