Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth. Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe ...

Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...

Outgoing Pittsburgh Opera general director Christopher Hahn discusses his long tenure and its concluding production, Verdi's ...

This week on 60 Minutes, composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was spotlighted in a story about the Metropolitan Opera, and it couldn't have fallen on a better month--October 10th marked Verdi's ...

Opera Columbus puts a twist on 'La traviata' in this collaboration with CAPA and the Columbus Symphony.

La traviata or The Fallen Woman is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ...

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, ...

Michael Mayer directs Verdi’s classic as an archaeologist’s discovery, featuring the shining soprano Angel Blue. By Zachary Woolfe There is nothing quite like opening night of Teatro alla Scala in ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres ...