Regicides

While many European theaters remain closed due to the pandemic, the famed Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7 opened its new season with the gala premiere of Verdi's "Macbeth" to a fully seated house.

The Athens Concert Hall will be screening a pre-recorded broadcast of "Macbeth" from the Olivier Theatre in London on Thursday, May 17. The National Theatre production of Shakespeare's darkest play is directed by Rufus Norris, with Rory Kinnear as Macbeth, and Anne-Marie Duff as Lady Macbeth. The screening in the Alexandra Trianti Hall starts at 9 p.m.

A row has erupted in the Kosovo town named after 14th century Serbian knight Milos Obilic, the alleged killer of invader Sultan Murad I, over whether to name a cultural centre after the Ottoman potentate.