Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure. This ...

In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi Cycle ...

Sarasota Opera is world-renowned for its Verdi Cycle. Between 1989 and 2016, the company undertook an ambitious project to perform all of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s operas and other musical ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others. But he regarded his finest accomplishment not as a particular opera but ...

It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer. The opera about a ...

Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

There are plenty of differences between Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Verdi’s opera of the same name — like, why settle for just three witches when you can have an entire chorus of them? — yet perhaps ...

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.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross. We're going to listen to and hear about a beautiful and awe-inspiring piece of music, Verdi's "Requiem," with our guest, conductor Yannick ...

As Garsington and Grange Park take on La traviata and Don Carlo, here are the basics to know before you venture into Verdi Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by On Monday, the company performs the much-revised masterpiece for the first time in its original language. By Will Crutchfield For the first 80 or so ...