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 ...

For Opera Colorado music director Ari Pelto, Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera — written when the composer was 79 years old — is more than a comic epilogue to a long career filled with tragic music dramas.

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 Cycle ...

Everything. That's what audience members expect from opera, and that's exactly what they get in Syracuse Opera's triumphant production of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata," or "The Fallen Woman." ...

Florida Grand Opera (FGO)’s 82nd season opens in the glittering salons of 19th century Paris, where the hottest party girl in town sips champagne and harbors a terrible secret. La traviata (The Fallen ...

"Il Trovatore" is the most operatic of operas: Enrico Caruso famously said of it, "It's easy to stage: You just need the four best singers in the world." It serves as the background to the Marx ...

The passions of Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" flared up with visceral power when Houston Grand Opera returned to Verdi's drama Friday after a 25-year wait. Verdi's retelling of "Othello," William ...