Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera
English - January 09, 2020 04:30 - 45 minutes - 51.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBooks Arts Music Music History literature mozart puccini rossini wagner bellini classical donizetti opera strauss Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What happens when two lifelong Shakespeareans attend Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Met? Marc Eliot Stein examines Giuseppe Verdi's earliest Shakespeare opera with Meg Wise-Lawrence, who teaches English at Hunter College and City College in New York City. We talk about witches, prophecies, banquets, mad scenes, Ian McKellen, Italian nationalism, the Scottish people, Verdi's "Nabucco", Verdi's "Otello" and Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades".