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MAY 20 & 21
Royal Opera

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.
The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts. 

Murder makes Macbeth king, and intrigue and butchery are the hallmarks of his brief, doomed reign. The witches make another prediction, which also comes true: Macbeth and his lady lose their lives, and justice is restored. 

Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production for The Royal Opera is richly hued, shot through with black, red and gold. The witches – imagined by designer Anthony Ward as strange, scarlet-turbaned creatures – are ever-present agents of fate. Lloyd depicts the Macbeths’ childlessness as the dark sadness lurking behind their terrible deeds. The Royal Opera’s production uses Verdi’s 1865 Paris revision of the opera, which includes Lady Macbeth’s riveting aria ‘La luce langue’.

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Varsity Theatre
166 E. Main St.
Ashland, OR 97520

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  • Home
  • SCHEDULE
    • The Sleeping Beauty
    • La Bohème​
    • Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait
    • Fleabag
    • One Man, Two Guvnors
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Leonardo: The Works
    • Fidelio
    • The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering​
    • Hamlet
    • In Search of Mozart
    • The Dante Project
    • The Welkin
    • Frida Kahlo
    • Cavelleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
    • Hansard
    • Hermitage
  • DONATE
  • Volunteer
  • ARCHIVE
    • Julius Caesar
    • Don Quixote
    • Richard II
    • Klimt & Schiele: Eros and Psyche
    • As You Like It
    • La Forza del Destino
    • Die Walküre
    • The Madness of George III
    • Troilus & Cressida
    • Allelujah!
    • Romeo & Juliet
    • La Bayadére
    • Romeo & Juliet
    • Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies
    • La Traviata
    • Antony & Cleopatra
    • Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood
    • The Queen of Spades
    • Faust
    • Twelfth Night
    • Tosca
    • The Winter's Tale
    • Young Marx
    • Within the Golden Hour
    • Macbeth - Royal Opera
    • Macbeth - Royal Shakespeare Company
    • Macbeth - National Theatre
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • Swan Lake
    • Hamlet
    • King Lear
    • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
    • Mayerling
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • Frankenstein
    • Julie
    • Small Island
    • Don Pasquale
    • Follies
    • The Prado Museum
    • The Lehman Trilogy
    • Coppélia
    • Water Lilies by Monet: the Magic of Water and Light
    • All My Sons
  • Blog
  • Contact