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 ...

Conducting ‘Luisa Miller’ here? It’s an added responsibility... Verdi knew the tradition of this theater; when he wrote the ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres ...

It's that time of year again when freshly steamed curtains are rising on opera stages across the country, introducing another new season of performances. And this time, one composer will be popping up ...

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 ...

Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff, at the Morgan Library and Museum, through January 5, 2020. The creation of the final two operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), completed when the musical genius ...

The concert, filmed last October at the historical site of Petra, Jordan, includes such other renowned tenors as Roberto Alagna, Andrea Bocelli, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, as well as soprano ...