Riccardo Muti revisits the Teatro Regio, lately his chosen house for opera with all the trappings. After Così fan tutte (2021), Don Giovanni (2022), and Un Ballo in Maschera (2024), he now addresses Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth. At 84, the maestro takes second place to no one—active today or long gone—as a Verdi interpreter. His stature is perhaps especially evident in concert performances, which actuate a listener’s imagination so vividly as to render the visual element redundant. Small wonder Muti deplores the contemporary scourge of directors who supplant Verdi’s dramaturgy with dissonant agendas of their own. An intermittent partnership with his daughter, the talented actor and stage director Chiara Muti, has proved congenial in recent years; watch for her witchcraft again in Macbeth. Luca Micheletti, lately the Mutis’ Don Giovanni, and Lidia Fridman are the killer royals. —Matthew Gurewitsch