Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his ...

Analysis The Witches have conjured up three ghostly visions that make ambiguous predictions. Macbeth is told that he need not fear anything ('take no care who chafes, who frets, or where ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ...