James Conlon will conduct that classic as well as productions of ‘Falstaff' and ‘The Magic Flute' as he concludes his 20-year ...

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 ...

At the age of 26, Verdi’s first opera, Oberto, premiered at Milan ... Although historians argue that the link between his music and nationalism may have formed more gradually than is often ...

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Transplanting a tale of ancient Egypt to a modern-day military dictatorship is a difficult and rather dubious task, but ...

The cries of ‘Viva Verdi’ could be heard as vociferously in the opera house as in the street. Verdi, however, disliked direct involvement with politics and withdrew from the first Italian parliament. ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 11. Azerbaijani opera singer Chinara Shirin has performed in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "The ...

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 ...

Verdi’s Nabucco, and especially its chorus Va’, Pensiero, has been long associated with Risorgimento and is still today a ...

The singers, Zhou Shen from China and Diego from Peru, focused on illustrating the China-Peru stories interactively with music. Moreover, the NCPA production of Verdi's opera returned in December ...

Big instrumental forces, huge choruses and music that is impactful builds a texture that makes you think wow! No other composer of Italian opera has managed to match the popularity of Verdi.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Show more Fom the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi’s monumental tragedy of forbidden love in ancient Egypt. Aida is an Ethiopian princess held captive in ...