Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich’s failure to write more operas. After Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ...

NARRATOR: In the castle Macbeth is put into his armour… FX: Clink of armour. MACBETH: You - tell my lady I am about to leave for battle. BODYGUARD: Yes, my lord. MACBETH: Are the flags flying?

Night in Dunsinane Castle. Lady Macbeth's servant has summoned a doctor to witness her mistress sleep-walking. It is clear that Lady Macbeth is deeply troubled. In England Malcolm and Macduff have ...

One of the twentieth century’s greatest exponents of Lady Macbeth, Shirley Verrett, did all that, with a zwischenfach mezzo-ish color to boot. And then there’s that high D in the sleepwalking scene.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case involving Roman Polanski, who fled the United States after he forced himself on a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot, has spanned 45 years, sparking court battles ...