Opera Cheat Sheet | Houston Public Media

Théodore Chassériau (1891-56), Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches on the heath, Musée d’Orsay. Public domain. In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly discuss Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth.  First staged in Florence in 1847, it was Verdi’s tenth opera and his first stab at adapting Shakespeare for the musical theatre stage.  A tragedy set in medieval Scotland, Macbeth is a cautionary tale about what can happen to a marriage when... Read More