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 ...

The project has been underway for nearly 30 years. It comes to spectacular fruition this weekend. Saturday, the Sarasota Opera premiered "Aida." When when the final curtain closed, the Sarasota Opera ...

Although “Attila,” the obscure Verdi opera that premiers in Seattle on Saturday, is based on the tale of Attila the Hun, the great Italian composer barely veiled a nationalistic theme. First staged in ...

Verdi's most neglected opera might be "Alzira," a work seldom seen on stage since its 1845 premiere in Naples, Italy. Vincent La Selva's New York Grand Opera mounted what was billed as the opera's ...

ASPEN – As the long ovation subsided after a stunning performance of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” the folks sitting behind me clearly were not so enchanted. “Too bad Verdi lost his flair for melody after ‘Aida ...

Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect cast changes due to illness. GREAT BARRINGTON — In 2021, Berkshire Opera Festival presented “Falstaff,” Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera. It was his ...

Only in L.A.: Giuseppe Verdi’s 1844 opera “The Two Foscari” meets the CBS game show “The Price Is Right. “ On a recent day backstage at CBS Television City, one wall was dominated by a painting of ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger walks ...