To overcome his grief, Verdi throws himself into a new opera, Nabucco, which will debut in 1842 and begin a comeback for the composer. Years of brilliance: Verdi debuts Rigoletto, Il Trovatore ...

numbers opera, Tenor hero, soprano leading lady, bass villain, etc., etc. In so many ways, it is an archetype which spawned a nauseating collection of stereotypes. As with so much of Verdi ...

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.

For his 10th opera, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted Shakespeare’s epic tragedy “Macbeth” to produce an equally stormy drama, replete with political power grabs, paranoia, witches and ...

Il Trovatore is perhaps Verdi's most difficult opera to produce successfully. The music is glorious but the plot, even by the often absurd standards of opera, is convoluted and unbelievable.

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...

Verdi's Aida live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York ...