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Macbeth (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [1] is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March ...
Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...
The First Folio is one of the most valuable printed books in the world: a copy sold at Christie's in New York in October 2001 made $6.16 million hammer price (then £3.73m). [41] In October 2020, a copy sold by Mills College at Christie's fetched a price of $10 million, [42] making it the most expensive work of literature ever auctioned. [43]
First Folio—digitally scanned pages from a copy of the first folio; Quartos Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine—high resolution scans of the British Library's 93 copies of Shakespeare plays printed in quarto before 1642; Quartos—high resolution scans of the 32 copies of Hamlet printed in quarto before 1642 with XML transcriptions
The traditional origin is said to be a curse set upon the play by a coven of witches, angry at Shakespeare for using a real spell. [2] One hypothesis for the origin of this superstition is that Macbeth, being a popular play, was commonly put on by theatres in financial trouble, or that the high production costs of Macbeth put theatres in financial trouble.
This is a list of recordings of Macbeth, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.The first performance of the work was on 14 March 1847 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. Verdi subsequently revised the work and the first performance of this version was on 21 April 1865 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare.It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries.
This footage consists of the last few minutes of the play. [3] Maurice Ellis and Charles Collins appear as Macbeth and Macduff, indicating that the filming took place after July 16, 1936, when Ellis succeeded Jack Carter. [4] A copy of the film is preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration.