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.

MILAN, Jan. 27 -- Giaseppe Verdi died at 2:30 o'clock this morning. The dispatch printed in the Patris of Rome announcing his death yesterday morning was premature.

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 Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in the late 1800s built a neo-Gothic mansion in Milan, he envisioned a bustling sanctuary for professional musicians who were not earning livable incomes ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 11. Azerbaijani opera singer Chinara Shirin has performed in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "The Troubadour," staged in various cities in Spain and France, and presented by the ...

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo was being performed on Thursday at the traditional gala night to mark the opening of the new season at Milan's La Scala opera house.

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 ...

Giuseppe Verdi (born October 10, 1813; died January 27, 1901) was never a theoretician or academic, though he was quite able to write a perfectly poised fugue if he felt inclined. What makes him, with ...

Legendary former Inter Milan defender Giuseppe Baresi turned 67 yesterday.The former defender played for the Nerazzurri for more than a decade and a half. He made a total of 392 appearances for ...

New York's Metropolitan Opera opened its new season in September with a performance of acts from three operas by Giuseppe Verdi an American tribute coinciding with the international observance of ...

John Axelrod becomes principal conductor of Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra James Jolly Monday, April 18, 2011 ...