Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards at the First Crusade) is the Verdi opera that immediately followed Nabucco, the composer’s third opera and breakthrough success. Like Nabucco, it was first ...

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 Cycle ...

After starting the new year with a fine production of Puccini's Turandot, the Royal Opera has done even better with a perfect ...

Verdi's opera is every bit as dark and bloody as Shakespeare's drama on which it was based. It is true to the original play in most details of plot and character, yet it differs in significant ...

The Verdi Chorus celebrates its 35th anniversary with its Spring 2018 concert The Force of Destiny for two performances only at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica on April 28 and 29 led ...

The Verdi Chorus' 40th Anniversary season continues with its landmark Fall 2023 Concert 40! for two performances only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 18 and 19. Led by ...

It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer. The opera about a ...

Rossini’s Maometto Secondo and Verdi’s Don Carlo, each among their composer’s grandest and most ambitious works, arrived last week courtesy of Teatro Nuovo and the Metropolitan Opera, respectively.

Nearly 300 operas were influenced by themes or entire stories from the prolific pen of William Shakespeare, who wrote 37 plays in his lifetime. As a prelude to Opera Santa Barbara’s gala concert ...