![]() ![]() (Lyric declined to comment for this article.)Īnd it’s not just Lyric’s production that seems cursed. His understudy, Todd Thomas, finished the premiere, and Struckmann has returned for the rest of the performances. At Lyric’s season opener, in the performance before the black-tie Opera Ball, the bass-baritone Falk Struckmann, playing Iago, withdrew after the first act, citing severe allergies. He is replaced by Clifton Forbis, whom some might remember, sand Otello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia in 2005. The tenor Johan Botha, Lyric’s Otello, bowed out of the last two performances because of severe back pain. Verdi’s second of three adaptations of the Bard (the third is Falstaff) finishes its run at Lyric Opera on November 2, having suffered two withdrawals from the hyped-up cast. Giuseppe Verdi turned Macbeth into an opera, and the curse seems to have followed, instead, to another of his Shakespearean operas- Otello. ![]() Almost as familiar as “break a leg,” the old-as-the-braes theatrical superstition about Shakespeare’s play Macbeth spooks even skeptical actors to refer to it as “the Scottish play” to avoid invoking the curse that has supposedly led to a real stabbing onstage, a Lady Macbeth sleepwalking off the set, and Charlton Heston’s tights catching fire after someone soaked them in kerosene.
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