Verdi's Macbeth, An Opera “Unlike Any Other.”

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DescriptionOne of my favourite operas by Giuseppe Verdi is Macbeth—maybe because I am such a Shakespeare fan. Verdi himself was also an avid reader of Shakespeare and sought to produce an operatic work unlike any that had gone before. Take a minute to get the scoop!Fun FactWhen Verdi’s Macbeth first premiered in Florence in 1847, it was dubbed “L’opera senza amore!” The opera without love. It was odd to Italian audiences of the day that there was no great love affair as the focal point. Despi...