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 ...

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

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

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.

If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, opera patrons are rewarded with his aria.

The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...

Verdi, on the other hand — his beard was an ungroomed mess.

Vancouver Opera is gearing up for a powerhouse 2025/2026 season featuring three of the most celebrated works in the operatic canon. The upcoming lineup promises a mix of drama, comedy, and romance, ...

Teatro alla Scala has picked many operas to open a new season, an event of perennial importance on the international classical-music calendar ... for the opera’s several massed scenes. Ludovic Tézier ...

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. ...

Music, as a universal language, has the power to connect and bridge differences between cultures. Since operatic music serves ...