Ambitious Macbeth is determined to become king, and Lady Macbeth uses this to control him. Macbeth becomes increasingly violent to try and fulfil his ambition. Superstitious Macbeth believes the ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce ... century Scotland who fought to become king — as taken from historian Raphael ...

Michael Mayes leads the cast as Macbeth, the Scottish general who becomes king after murdering the reigning monarch. Mayes is a villain with a velvet-smooth baritone — his big Act IV aria was ...