Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago through October 6, 2024. Check out video footage from the production here ...

Richard Eyre’s production of Verdi’s famous 1853 opera La traviata, about the life and death of a troubled courtesan in mid ...

The Atlanta Opera is presenting its first mainstage event of the new season with a new co-production of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto on Nov 4 -7, 2023 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. One of ...

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Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph ...

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 ...

Artistic Director Anne Marie Ketchum and renowned Baritone Roberto Perlas Gomez stop by the KTLA Weekend Morning News to share a sneak peek of the Verdi Chorus Spring Show, "Bella Bellini." Tickets to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe Verdi gather in New York to celebrate him and his operas, like "La Traviata," "Aida" and "Otello." The latest gathering was Friday, marking 212 ...