Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth
Fri, 27 Mar
|Singapore
A cautionary tale about a man who chooses to hear only what flatters him and acts on it, setting in motion his own ruin — a story resonant today with modern scams. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, reimagined and boldly adapted into an audacious opera by Verdi, one of the world's greatest operatic composers.
Time & Location
27 Mar 2026, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm SGT
Singapore, 9 Empress Pl, Singapore 179556
About the event
A cautionary tale about a man who chooses to hear only what flatters him and acts on it, setting in motion his own ruin — a story resonant today with modern scams. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, reimagined and boldly adapted into an audacious opera by Giuseppe Verdi, one of the world's greatest operatic composers, is nothing short of epic.
The first of Verdi’s three Shakespearean operas (preceding Otello and Falstaff by decades), Macbeth premiered in 1847. It is a dark drama of ambition, greed, deceit, superstition, murder and political intrigue, heightened by ghosts, witches and the supernatural. In opera history, Macbeth was as revolutionary as Wagner’s Tannhäuser.
Experience this gripping “thriller” in Lirica Arts’ latest production, directed by Singapore’s leading opera director Tang Xin Xin and featuring an illustrious cast of local and international singers. At its center is a riveting, volatile couple whose relationship is powerfully explored through Verdi’s music. A…