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Alan Santini is the main antagonist in Opera/Terror at the Opera. Santini is a police inspector and secretly a serial killer and accomplice/lover of the dead mother of the main character, Betti. Seeing Betty in an opera production of Macbeth brought about flashbacks to crimes with her mother...
Betty, a young up and coming opera singer, gets put in the lead role of Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth after the leading lady storms out of rehearsal and gets hit by a car (breaking her leg).
- Puccini: Tosca (Stabbing) Baron Scarpia is writing the safe-conduct at his desk, when Tosca catches a glimpse of the knife on the dining table and realises that there may be another way out for her.
- Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (Guillotine) Few composers kill off more characters in one scene that Francis Poulenc does at the end of his Dialogues des Carmélites, yet few death scenes are quite as poignant.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni (Dragged down to hell) The sextet at the end of Mozart’s opera agrees: Don Giovanni got what he deserved. After seducing and breaking the hearts of – according to Leporello – thousands of women and killing Donna Anna’s father, the Commendatore, he’s dragged down to hell by a statue of his victim.
- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Poisoned mushrooms) I love a mushroom stroganoff as much as the next person, but even my stomach turns queasy when thinking about the fate of Boris in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
A witches’ prophecy, and fierce ambition, lead Macbeth and his wife to commit ruthless acts of violence against their family and friends, until they are both driven mad with the guilt and consequences of their actions.
May 8, 2020 · At the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, January 23, 1988, opera singer Bantcho Bantchevsky fell to his death from the opera house’s highest balcony.
Watch movie and read libretto and translation of Ora di morte e di vendetta, a duet for soprano and baritone, from the Italian opera Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi.
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Apr 1, 2016 · A young opera singer named Betty takes the lead in an avant-garde production of Macbeth. During several performances, a sadistic killer stalks her. He tapes pins under her eyelids so she can’t blink, and forces her to watch him kill.
