(Nov. 23 at 8). | The volatile Russian soprano Maria Guleghina, having put Verdi's murderous Lady Macbeth away for now, replaces Papian as the noble Druid princess.
Macbeth, meanwhile, has demons of his own to confront after murdering Duncan ("Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?") and both characters face troubled personal relationships, Hole with Rakel Faulke, and Macbeth with his murderous Lady.
I liked in particular the Queens of Crime, that regiment of murderous ladies in flowered frocks, as I pictured them: Agatha Christie, of course, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh, Georgette Heyer, and Dorothy L Sayers.
And who better to teach the youth they can do anything they set their minds to than a murderous lady-alien who will stop at nothing to end the life of the human being she is hunting for sport?
* "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE" Voices!, a new series of one-night-only staged readings of rarely revived plays -- in the manner of the Encores! musical series -- begins on Nov. 11 with Joseph Kesselring's macabre comedy from 1941 about two sweet and murderous old ladies.
They might divert criticism from Bo by depicting his allegedly murderous wife as China's Lady Macbeth.
It used to be the case that a night at the opera entailed predictably high-voltage romantic melodrama on stage, with plots filled with unrequited love, murderous passions and a fat lady's swansong.
Among those who know their birds of prey, the reputation of the goshawk is half Hamlet, half Lady Macbeth: mad, murderous, unpredictable, the kind of creature whose partners and intimates should brace themselves for trouble.
Rather than despair over the image of Lady Macbeth and her murderous power play, I went to New York City last week for The WIE Symposium, where I had the opportunity to speak with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
As the captured Ethiopian princess, she expressed every possible shade of violent rage, one minute a seething Lady Macbeth, the next a murderous Electra.
He is a true leveler — and, comically, in "The Ladies Man," Herbert levels a murderous gangster, a fearsome vixen, the whole pompous rigamarole of live television (which comes to install itself in the house) and even the great George Raft himself, who comes (playing himself) to the house for a date.
