San Francisco Opera will open its upcoming season with Verdi’s stirring political drama “Simon Boccanegra,” signaling an ...

San Francisco Opera will present a dynamic 2026-27 season, featuring a mix of classic operas and new productions. Highlights ...

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 company will revisit that historic legacy with ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

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 ...

THE BASICS: Verdi’s opera A MASKED BALL (UN BALLO IN MASCHERA), sung in Italian with supertitles, produced by Buffalo Opera Unlimited, will be on stage this Friday, December 2nd at 7:30 and Sunday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of a new album devoted to Verdi opera choruses. Lloyd reminds us that there's more to opera than just the typical aria, trio ...