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 fallen on a better month--October 10th marked ...

I was 15 when I went to my first Verdi opera, “Il Trovatore,” at the Met, the old Met, in 1964. I could barely figure out what was going on but didn’t care.

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 ...