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Chicago Opera Review: MACBETH (Chicago Opera Theater at the Harris) by Lawrence Bommer

VIDEO WILL OUT Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy becomes, appropriately, a 115-minute, one-act opera by Ernest Bloch, a dour offering first produced in 1910 at the Opera-Comique in Paris. An inventive local premiere by Chicago Opera Theater at the Harris Theatre in Millennium Park, this “lyric drama in seven scenes,” which employs Bloch’s English translation from Edmond […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27PM on September 14, 2014

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