The passion for bel canto opera that emerged in the years after Maria Callas's great performances of the 1950s led, eventually, to the slow rediscovery of early Verdi in the 1960s and '70s. The ...

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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 ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppi Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.

The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame. The music ...

“Verdi is my favorite opera composer for sure, and I find his work to be the most musically interesting and emotionally effective,” said Brian Garman, co-founder and artistic director of BOF, who will ...

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 ...

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Giuseppe Verdi’s biblically inspired opera, “Nabucco,” will be shown Jan. 6 in Whitefish as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. Sung in Italian with subtitles, “Nabucco” is Verdi’s ...

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 ...