Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...
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 ...
Opera Colorado is bringing the tragedy based on Shakespeare's play to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
Jorge de León and Krassimira Stoyanova play it by the numbers in Verdi’s Aïda. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi are not only—for the most part—masterpieces, they are ...
Rossini’s Maometto Secondo and Verdi’s Don Carlo, each among their composer’s grandest and most ambitious works, arrived last week courtesy of Teatro Nuovo and the Metropolitan Opera, respectively.
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 ...
Quinn Kelsey has had success after success at the Metropolitan Opera. These three performances secure his reputation as a great Verdi baritone. By Joshua Barone Verdi’s adaptation of the Shakespeare ...
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Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...