Conductor Mink Luke will lead several soloists and about 60 instrumentalists and 200 volunteer singers in the Jan. 2-4 performances.

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 ...

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 ...

Interview with ‘Viva Verdi!’ documentary director reveals how the great opera composer made “dreams come true” with his ...

The statue of Giuseppe Verdi, set high above a patch of daffodils, draws scant attention from people hurrying to the subway at Seventy-second Street and Broadway, or even from people lounging on the ...

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 into a ...

Vladyslav Buialskyi stood center stage at the Metropolitan Opera, his hand on his heart, and sang the national anthem of his country, Ukraine. For the first 80 or so years of its life, Verdi’s “Don ...

With Thanksgiving in mind, we're exploring a few appetizing tales of composers and their culinary inclinations. Look for stories about Rossini, Mahler, Berg, Paganini, Schoenberg and others to follow.

When Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in the late 1800s built a neo-Gothic mansion in Milan, he envisioned a bustling sanctuary for professional musicians who were not earning livable incomes. Since ...

Verdi’s operas are well known – but what about his work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? On the eve of the composer’s 200th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill ...

There’s been a certain amount of baffled grumbling in recent months that Verdi’s bicentenary hasn’t been as widely marked as Wagner’s. I’m not surprised or worried by this. Wagner is Marmite: you love ...

The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres Siciliennes,” a French work experts say has long been overshadowed by an Italian version Verdi did not produce. By David Belcher Teatro Nuovo, which trains ...