“Macbeth,” the Verdi opera currently on offer at Deutsch Opera, Berlin, should have been titled “MacAbre.” Shakespeare was lionized by the Italian composer, so it’s interesting to speculate what he would have thought of this bizarre, Grand-Guignol-ish production, created by the controversial Marie-Ève Signeyrole and roundly booed by critics (but found fascinating by the audience, including yours truly.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnogowski/p/would-shakespeare-have-dug-macbeth?r=7pf7u&utm_medium=ios