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Effie Papanikolaou
Verdi's Macbeth: "The opera without a love affair!"
Shakespeare and Beyond
Verdi's Macbeth: "The opera without a love affair!"
“L’opera senza amore!” That was the Italians’ reaction to Verdi’s Macbeth when it premiered in Florence in 1847. Despite its immediate success and subsequent popularity, an opera that involved no great love affair struck audiences as an oddity.