Sarasota Opera will continue its proud tradition of presenting operas by Giuseppe Verdi with Il trovatore. Il trovatore was ...
Giuseppe Verdi pulled his opera ‘Stiffelio’ after its premiere because of censorship. It took more than 100 years before it returned to the stage.
When the Metropolitan Opera last revived Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” a reviewer bemoaned its “four soul-numbing hours of ludicrous plot twists.” That’s harsh. But there’s no question the libretto ...
Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...
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, ...
Attila the Hun is hardly a cuddly figure. The 5th century ruler of Central and Eastern Europe was known for his brutal treatment of those he conquered across the continent. And yet bass Young Bok Kim, ...