On January 30, 1901, as a hearse drove the coffin of Giuseppe Verdi to the cemetery in Milan, a huge crowd gathered to honor the greatest 19th-century Italian composer. As the small funeral procession ...

A critic whose love of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi goes back nearly 60 years traveled to northern Italy to visit the places that shaped the man and his music. Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of his ...

Carl St.Clair will close his 35th and final season as music director of Pacific Symphony with this week’s performances of ...

Verdi persevered in his ambitions by taking private lessons. After his studies with one Vincenzo Lavigna, from whom he acquired a thorough mastery of counter point, fugue and canon, Verdi applied for ...

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 ...

Italy’s culture ministry has notified the heirs of Giuseppe Verdi that it will seize the composer’s villa near the town of Piacenza, paving the way for plans to transform the decaying property ...

A Nazi concentration camp was an unlikely place for an impromptu chorus of Jewish prisoners to perform the dramatic Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. But that’s what happened — 16 times — in late ...

Giuseppe Verdi has written 6 shows including La Traviata (Composer), Aida (Composer), Rigoletto (Composer), Il Trovatore (Composer), My Darlin' Aida (Source Material), Aida (Source Material).