Review: Portland Opera Presents Forceful Version of 'Macbeth'

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"Macbeth" proved a full-blown, expertly rendered example of the Portland Opera season's themes of power and corruption when it opened Saturday at Portland's Keller Auditorium. If you like a thriller, you'll leave exhausted and exhilarated three hours and two intermissions later. It will continue to play tonight and Saturday.

If there was a glitch opening night, it was soprano Pamela South's viral infection, announced during an intermission by the opera's general director Christopher Mattaliano, who asked "for our patience." South sang the role of Lady Macbeth.

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Review: Portland Opera Presents Forceful Version of 'Macbeth'

South performed major parts in Portland's Opera's 2003's "A View from the Bridge" and in last year's "Street Scenes," but she owns this Lady Macbeth role. She has the gravity, actin...

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