Operatic Macbeth set in central Africa may surprise and impress

Witches, a prophesy, and lots of death. Macbeth is the quite possibly the bloodiest of Shakespeare’s plays, and one of the most famous adapted for the operatic stage. Brett Bailey’s take on Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth sees the Scotsman reimagined as a Congolese warlord and the story set in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa.