In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi Cycle ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppi Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.

This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of a new album devoted to Verdi opera choruses. Lloyd reminds us that there's more to opera than just the typical aria, trio ...

It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer. The opera about a ...

Beautiful music, impressive singing, a bewildering plot and too much dancing combine to create mixed impressions in Verdi's ...

Scene stealer: Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey (far left) in Verdi’s rarely performed opera The Sicilian Vespers - Tristram Kenton Sprawling, flawed, impractical: history has not been kind to Verdi’s ...

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 ghosts.

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Detroit Opera invites its patrons to travel back to the sparkling salons of 1920s Paris for the next two weekends with a visually stunning production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” opening Saturday ...

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. Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of his home ...

From lead to chorus, the performances in Aida are superb, but the production suffers from its more intimate approach and ...