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 ...

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Big instrumental forces, huge choruses and music that is impactful builds a texture that makes you think wow! No other composer of Italian opera has managed to match the popularity of Verdi.

Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and a symbol of Italian unification, tried to give up music when he composed Nabuco, an opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi ... early 20th century and my goal is to get closer to how Verdi found expression in the music.” DeRenzi is working with his wife, Stephanie ...

The first Washington Concert Opera performance of 2025 will honor the remarkable W.A. Mozart by presenting his La clemenza di Tito. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Sarasota Opera opens a new season with the double bill of one acts ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ and ‘Pagliacci’ to launch its 66th season.

Verdi’s triumph ... The Royal Opera orchestra plays well for Daniel Oren, who conducts a performance in which every phrase has been considered afresh. Although the music sometimes feels pulled ...

The cries of ‘Viva Verdi’ could be heard as vociferously in the opera house as in the street. Verdi, however, disliked direct involvement with politics and withdrew from the first Italian parliament. ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 11. Azerbaijani opera singer Chinara Shirin has performed in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "The ...

Verdi, on the other hand — his beard was an ungroomed mess.

It was Peter Gelb, general manager of New York Metropolitan Opera. The principal tenor singing the role of Radamés in the Met’s new staging of Verdi’s “Aida” was fighting a virus.