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 ...

MILAN -- Before the pandemic, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move "closer, closer, closer" when they played together. "Because you need to hear each ...

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 ...

Santa Monica’s Verdi Chorus returns to in-person performance for its 38th season this week with live performances at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 13 and 14. The program ...

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 ...

Every time he returns to Sarasota Opera, tenor Rafael Davila feels like he’s coming home. This season he marks the 20th anniversary of his Sarasota Opera debut in a 2003 Puccini gala by taking on the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1848, for a French-language production of Nabucco at the Théâtre de la ...

“With this opera,” said Giuseppe Verdi, “my artistic career has begun.” He was speaking of Nabucco, the opera about Nebuchadnezzar that set him at the age of 28 in the top rank of operatic composers.

Ylenia Labanca, right, plays piano with a singer Yidan Fu, behind a transparent panel to curb the spread of COVID-19, during a lesson at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory, in Milan, Italy, ...