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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

2013 marks the bicentennial of the legendary Italian opera composer’s birth, making it a perfect time to explore the remote countryside that saw his beginnings as a musician and a man.

His operas are well known – but what about Verdi’s work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? Clemency Burton-Hill looks back.

Act Like You Know: Giuseppe Verdi Nabucco: 'Va, pensiero' For being known as the "king of opera," Verdi was actually born in modest circumstances in the middle-of-nowhere northern Italy (near ...

Verdi Music Verdi - Nabucco Nabucco is the opera that brought Giuseppe Verdi back from the brink. He had been ready to give up composing for good. What was it that made Verdi's Nabucco such a pivotal ...