macbeth was adapted to an opera by mozart
the inaugural run at the newly renovated theatre was macbeth which was disrupted for over two months with cries of old prices and no private boxes until kemble capitulated to the protestors demands
in 1936 a decade before his film adaptation of the play orson welles directed macbeth for the negro theatre unit of the federal theatre project at the lafayette theatre in harlem using black actors and setting the action in haiti with drums and voodoo rites to establish the witches scenes