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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, Op. 23, is a symphonic poem written by Richard Strauss between 1886 and 1888. [1] The work was his first tone poem, which Strauss described as "a completely new path" for him compositionally. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Music from Macbeth; S. Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel This page was last edited on 19 May 2024, at 10:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Concept album from written from the perspective of various characters in the novel [18] [19] Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis [20] Seventh Son of a Seventh Son: Iron Maiden: Seventh Son: Orson Scott Card [21] Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel ...
[6] In addition, she quotes from a long letter which Verdi wrote to the soprano Marianna Barbieri-Nini, who had been his Lady Macbeth at the 1847 premiere of that opera. In the letter, Verdi said that he wanted "to tell you a few things about your pieces", and gives her some very explicit advice on how to sing Gulnara.
Now, I send you Macbeth, which I prize above all my other operas, and therefore deem worthier to present to you." [42] In 1997 Martin Chusid wrote that Macbeth was the only one of Verdi's operas of his "early period" to remain regularly in the international repertoire, [43] although in the 21st century Nabucco has also entered the lists. [44]
"Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.