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 ...

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.

playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in this country. The broadcasts debuted on Dec. 25, 1931, with Humperdinck’s "Hansel and Gretel," and are now the ...

The way these were performed emphasized the precise rhythms and power of Verdi's music, which was powerfully played by the Royal Opera House Orchestra under the firm control of Oren. As I ...

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

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.

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. ...

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

Verdi's exquisite melodies and rousing choruses ... Francisco Chronicle), and she sings with the Chicago Lyric Opera and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as well as BOF this season.

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.