“Nabucco” was the 28-year-old Verdi’s third extant opera, written reluctantly at first after a crisis of self-confidence brought on by the failure of “Un Giorno di Regno” and the deaths ...

Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and a symbol of Italian unification, tried to give up music when he composed Nabuco, an opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned ...

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 ...

Last fall, Sarasota Opera presented a concert of music by Giacomo Puccini “The Music of Giuseppe Verdi” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 and 3 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Sarasota Opera House ...

The Greek National Opera is reviving acclaimed Italian director Leo Muscato’s production of Verdi’s Nabucco led by internationally acclaimed Italian conductor Paolo Carignani in his GNO debut.

As an opera composer, Verdi was always conscious of dramatic effect. With off-stage trumpets, a pounding bass drum and four vocal soloists, his Requiem Mass really packs a wallop. Conductor Marin ...

In this image provided by the Met Opera, soprano Lise Davidsen as Leonora and baritone Igor Golovatenko as her brother, Carlo, in a new production of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" opening Feb. 26 ...

Born 45 years after both Verdi and Wagner, Giacomo Puccini would become another pillar of the world's opera houses. With sweepingly romantic melodies, his operas were stocked not with royalty and ...