NEW YORK (AP) — When the curtain rises on Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Battaglia di Legnano” (“The Battle of Legnano”) in Sarasota, Florida., later this month, it will cap an achievement as historic in its ...

Thanks to supertitles it wasn’t necessary to consult programme synopsis or the libretto COG always makes available. As usual in Italian opera from the first half of the 19th century, the soprano and ...

Verdi Äôs First Opera Gets a Full Production KEENE, N.H. Oberto -- If the legendary (because lost) first opera by Verdi, "Rocester" really existed, then "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio" (1839) is his ...

To mark the bicentenary of Verdi's birth, the Gran Teatre del Liceu is opening the 2013-2014 season with a great Verdi celebration, divided into four tempos or concerts, covering almost the whole of ...

Giuseppe Verdi was to Italian opera what Beethoven was to the symphony. Of his more than two dozen operas, spanning 54 years from Oberto to Falstaff, none has a more stirring or well-liked overture ...

If anyone in the audience for this year's Verdi Concert had not yet grasped the magnitude of the Sarasota Opera's 27-year Verdi Cycle challenge, then they had to be enlightened by the end of the grand ...

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and ...