Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners ...

San Francisco Opera will open its upcoming season with Verdi’s stirring political drama “Simon Boccanegra,” signaling an ...

In a Verdi revival at the Royal Opera, two top female singers are discovering, and rediscovering, characters from a real-life royal love triangle. By David Belcher Reporting from London Across the ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

One of Verdi’s best-known choruses, the brindisi “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici,” toasts love and joy in Act 1 of “La Traviata.” To tide opera-mad Berkshirites over till they can hear it in August, The ...

Glamorous opening nights came with “Macbeth,” “Falstaff” and “Otello” — as well as a new version of “Julius Caesar.” By Larry Wolff “Ah, Shakespeare, Shakespeare!” exclaimed Giuseppe Verdi in 1872.

‘Scilla Cristiano is one of the best lyric sopranos in the world,” says Joshua Collier, artistic director of Opera Vermont. “I’ve heard so many lyric sopranos, household names that appear on big ...

The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced the cast and conductors for Dayton Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's Aida. Aida takes place Friday, April 4 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 6 at ...

On the bicentennial of the composer's birth, his music seems keenly suited to our triumphs and our failures. His operas may star dukes,... Verdi's Operas: A Vigorous Soundtrack To Human Nature Verdi's ...