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 ...

Verdi’s Nabucco arrived at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg in a production that combined vocal force, visual ambition and a ...

Only in L.A.: Giuseppe Verdi’s 1844 opera “The Two Foscari” meets the CBS game show “The Price Is Right. “ On a recent day backstage at CBS Television City, one wall was dominated by a painting of ...

Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure. This ...

Utah Opera closes its 2025-26 season with Verdi's LA TRAVIATA at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, featuring soprano ...

Jorge de León and Krassimira Stoyanova play it by the numbers in Verdi’s Aïda. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi are not only—for the most part—masterpieces, they are ...

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...

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 ...

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.