An opera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor )
Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
Producer, Michael Benthall
From the Royal Opera House.
Covent Garden
Act I
Scene 1: A heath
Scene 2: A hall in Macbeth's castle

by Anton Ehrenzweig
The abstract painter of today like, to think that the realistic art of the past tied the painter to copying his perceptions of nature.
The recently publ shed book by Frote»sor
E H Gombrich, Art and Illusion, analyses
This widespread misunderstanding of traditioLTti P Mr. Ehrenzweig thinks ; that ■ may help the modern painter to take heart and assist him in the development of a new representational art which can be discerned in the current trends of abstract art.

Act 2
Scene 1: A room in Macbeth's castle Scene 2: A park in the grounds Scene 3: The banqueting-hall

by Frances Cornford chosen from those written since the publication of Collected Poems (1954)
Read by Frances Cornford
Christopher Hassall , Janette Richer
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

Acr 3: A dark cave on the heath

by Richard Southern author of The Medieval Theatre in the Round
After centuries of research much is known about the Elizabethan theatre as a building but very little about the shape and layout of the stage itself. Dr. Southern talks of some of the most disputed features in the light of the latest contribution to the subject, Shakespeare's Wooden O by Leslie Hotson.

Act 4
Scene 1. A barren stretch of country near the Border
Scene 2: A hall in Macbeth's castls Scene 3: A room in the castle Scent 4: Outside the castle