Sarasota Opera is world-renowned for its Verdi Cycle. Between 1989 and 2016, the company undertook an ambitious project to perform all of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s operas and other musical ...

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 ...

San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring productions of Simon Boccanegra, Mary, Queen of Scots, Manon, ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres ...

If Thursday night’s concert version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore doesn’t whet San Antonio’s appetite for more high-quality opera, probably nothing can. A collaboration of the San Antonio Symphony, ...

Born alongside Italy’s press for nationhood, Verdi’s operas provided Italians with the music that expressed the passion for ...

Luca Antonucci's Top 5 Verdi opera choruses Giuseppe Verdi is by many measures the master of the operatic chorus. So, who better to talk to about his music than the Berkshire Opera Festival’s newly ...

When composer Giuseppe Verdi and soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, his second wife, were visiting Paris 1851-52, they attended a performance of Alexander Dumas fils’ “La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the ...