Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners ...

PARMA, Italy — The Festival Verdi Parma has led a sleepy existence here for most of its 18 years. But now it demands attention. Where else in four days can you see four Verdi operas so rare the most ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It took 158 years to get here, but "Les Vepres Siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London this week in a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Scheduled for Nov. 15 and 17, the concert will include selections from the great ...

San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata conducted by Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim in a new staging by director Shawna Lucey. This new vision of a beloved classic, the ...

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 ...

The eyes of the opera world will be focused on Chicago this season. Both the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater are unveiling world-premiere operas that have great potential to expand ...

In my July 2 review of the recent San Francisco Opera concert in which music director Eun Sun Kim conducted music by Verdi, I took note of General Manager Matthew Shilvock’s introductory remarks ...

The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres Siciliennes,” a French work experts say has long been overshadowed by an Italian version Verdi did not produce. By David Belcher Teatro Nuovo, which trains ...

On the bicentennial of the composer's birth, his music seems keenly suited to our triumphs and our failures. His operas may star dukes,... Verdi's Operas: A Vigorous Soundtrack To Human Nature Verdi's ...