Popular operas by Italy’s two most famous opera composers ― Puccini and Verdi ― will be staged in Seoul in April. The Seoul Metropolitan Opera Company will stage opera “Tosca,” one of the most ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Venice, March 9, 1844: the opening night of Giuseppe Verdi’s grand new opera, Ernani (pronounced ...

Opera Colorado is bringing the tragedy based on Shakespeare's play to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - It took 158 years to get here, but "Les Vepres Siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the ...

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 Italian Giuseppe Verdi was one of the greatest musicians in history. At the age of 27, a tragic family situation, Austrian domination over Italy and the failure of his works led him to think about ...

This week we turn to the Shakespeare of opera, a composer whose glorious gift for melodies and compassionate gaze celebrates life in all its variety Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is one of the greatest ...

Rossini’s Maometto Secondo and Verdi’s Don Carlo, each among their composer’s grandest and most ambitious works, arrived last week courtesy of Teatro Nuovo and the Metropolitan Opera, respectively.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. This magnificent 75-CD set, honouring the bicentenary of Verdi's birth on Thursday, is a boon for ...

The brave, noble general Otello is married to the beautiful, spirited Desdemona, but there is someone who would come between them. Enter Iago, the moor’s ensign. Bitter towards his master and jealous ...

As Garsington and Grange Park take on La traviata and Don Carlo, here are the basics to know before you venture into Verdi Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and ...

Verdi’s opera is not Shakespeare’s play set to music. It’s a different, but equally beautiful, tangle of colour and emotion, and its lead role is one I am still – after many years – getting to grips ...