At the age of 26, Verdi’s first opera, Oberto ... de Gregorio, DEA/Age Fotostock Although Italian nationalism was led to victory by soldiers like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Verdi’s music provided ...

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...

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

Otello, the Italian operatic adaptation by composer Giuseppe Verdi and librettist Arrigo Boito of the great Shakespearian play, Othello, will be revived at Tel Aviv’s Israeli Opera next month ...

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas. Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a ...

Directorial nods and winks undermine the impact of Verdi’s brutal ... The work also plays to preconceptions about Italian opera: a plot that twists and leaps, mistaken identities, set pieces ...

In this interview with SBS Italian, Gianluca Falaschi explains how he created the costumes for Giuseppe Verdi's Attila, currently staged by Opera Australia in a co-production with La Scala in Milan.

In addition, Giancarlo del Monaco is the stage director and set designer of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," which premiered this November at the Bolshoi Theater. Hungary’s ...

TAMPA — Straz Center’s Opera Tampa recently announced its 30th anniversary season featuring the work of Benjamin Britten, ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...