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Seoul Metropolitan Opera presents 'Macbeth', an opera by Guiseppe Verdi and based on Shakespear's play, in the Sejong Grand Theater from Nov.24 to 27. Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. As one of Shakespeare's four tragedies, the piece observes the damaging effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
The production will be presented by a exquisite and delicate conductor, Koo Jahbom, and a renowned sensual director Koh Sunwoong.

Synopsis
A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a group of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.

Main Characters
* Macbeth – a general in the army of King Duncan; originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and later King of Scotland
* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife, and later Queen of Scotland
* Duncan – King of Scotland
* Malcolm – Duncan's elder son
* Donalbain – Duncan's younger son
* Banquo – Macbeth's friend and a general in the army of King Duncan
* Fleance – Banquo's son
* Macduff – Thane of Fife
* Lady Macduff – Macduff's wife
* Macduff's son