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 ...

Often described as Verdi’s greatest “opera” never staged, the Requiem was composed in memory of the writer Alessandro Manzoni. It fuses the dramatic intensity of Verdi’s operas with the gravity of ...

Sarasota Opera will continue its proud tradition of presenting operas by Giuseppe Verdi with Il trovatore, opening Saturday, March 7 with seven performances through March 29, 2026. The company ...

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, ...

Outgoing Pittsburgh Opera general director Christopher Hahn discusses his long tenure and its concluding production, Verdi's ...

La traviata or The Fallen Woman is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

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 BASICS: Verdi’s opera A MASKED BALL (UN BALLO IN MASCHERA), sung in Italian with supertitles, produced by Buffalo Opera Unlimited, will be on stage this Friday, December 2nd at 7:30 and Sunday, ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth. Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe ...

Based in Parma, Club dei 27 is so exclusive that it’s given rise to all sorts of myths. But it’s really about venerating the famous opera composer born near the Italian city. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...