A critic whose love of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi goes back nearly 60 years traveled to northern Italy to visit the places that shaped the man and his music.

Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem is a conductor's dream come true. Few pieces in the repertoire offer the drama of opera and the thrill of wonderful symphonic writing combined with stellar, virtuosic solo ...

San Francisco Opera opened its 102nd season with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball),” which the company hadn’t performed in a decade — and it was worth the wait.

Happy 200th birthday, Giuseppe Verdi 11:07. This week on 60 Minutes, composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was spotlighted in a story about the Metropolitan Opera, and it couldn't have ...

GENEVA — Geneva Light Opera is presenting three fully staged performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s comic opera “Falstaff,” which is based on Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” later this month.

Born alongside Italy’s press for nationhood, Verdi’s operas provided Italians with the music that expressed the passion for their cause and became an important part of Italy’s national identity.

When Giuseppe Verdi, born 200 years ago next week, died in January 1901, Italy wept as one. Almost a quarter of a million people took to the streets, marching to Va, ...

The Italian Giuseppe Verdi was one of the greatest musicians in history. At the age of 27, a tragic family situation, Austrian domination over Italy and the failure of his works led him to think ...

Giuseppe Verdi pulled his opera ‘Stiffelio’ after its premiere because of censorship. It took more than 100 years before it returned to the stage.

Verdi is such a beloved figure here that the name of his hometown was changed to Roncole Verdi in 1963. The rural house where he was born (Via della Processione 1; 05-249-7450) was turned into a ...

The statue of Giuseppe Verdi, set high above a patch of daffodils, draws scant attention from people hurrying to the subway at Seventy-second Street and Broadway, or even from people lounging on ...