Sprawling, flawed, impractical: history has not been kind to Verdi’s rarely staged opera The Sicilian Vespers. Even the ...

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 home ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of a new album devoted to Verdi opera choruses. Lloyd reminds us that there's more to opera than just the typical aria, trio ...

Every time he returns to Sarasota Opera, tenor Rafael Davila feels like he’s coming home. This season he marks the 20th anniversary of his Sarasota Opera debut in a 2003 Puccini gala by taking on the ...

Two hundred years ago this week, Giuseppe Verdi was born in an Italian town midway between Bologna and Milan. On the occasion of his bicentennial, All Things Considered wanted to know what makes the ...

JACK GALLAGHER: Diversions Overture (1986). Berceuse (1977). Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1990, expanded 2007). Symphony in One Movement: Threnody (1991, revised 2008). JoAnn Falletta conducting ...

Is there a composer who is more adored than Giuseppe Verdi? There are composers who command more respect than Verdi, but no one receives more love. To honor the recent anniversary of Verdi’s passing ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger walks ...

The 39 th season of the Verdi Chorus continues with the Fox Singers, presented by the Verdi Chorus and the Sahm Family Foundation, in A Serenade To Music for one night only at the First Presbyterian ...

MILAN -- Before the pandemic, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move "closer, closer, closer" when they played together. "Because you need to hear each ...