Verdi: Macbeth (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)Amazon. com Verdis admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isnt on their exalted level its still a powerfully dramatic opera that hews closely to the originals story line. The METs production retains the dark aura of the opera while updating it to a vaguely post modern context. So the witches are bag ladies in various stages of decrepitude, with children in tow. The Banquet Scene features