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Macbeth, Thane of Wall Street: Lyon’s Verdi Festival launches with “the Scottish opera”

Verdi: Macbeth *** Opéra de Lyon, 16th March 2018 Forget 11th-century Scotland. Ivo van Hove views Macbeth as an exploration of what people will do for power. With the world of finance dominating politics today, he sets Verdi’s opera in a Wall Street skyscraper … Continue reading

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