Baltimore Concert Opera presents "MacBeth"

BCO honors the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth with his first adaptation of Shakespeare for the opera stage. In a letter to his librettist, Verdi wrote: “This tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man… If we can’t make something great out of it let us at least try to do something out of the ordinary.” The Bard’s masterwork sparkles on the operatic stage in this story of ambition gone awry, as the plot hatched by a general and his wife to kill the king initially succeeds… but at what cost?