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 ...

Rigoletto is the kind of opera that, even if you staged it in a darkened storage locker, would still feel incandescent. The Metropolitan Opera has taken the opposite approach, tricking out its new ...

Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure. This ...

La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (1835), ...

This reissue of Sir Georg Solti’s 1989 recording of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra is part of a series on Decca Classics entitled ‘Classic Opera’. I’m not quite sure why it’s called this, however. Certain ...

Verdi's Requiem: The San Antonio Symphony went large with extra players, three choirs, trumpets in the Majestic Theatre mezzanine and four top solo singers for a top-notch performance of Giuseppe ...

Say what you will about the demise of the CD and the battles between downloads and streams, in 2015 the flow of classical music recordings seemed as full and rich as ever. Devising a list of just 10 ...

The evening was dedicated – on the 10th anniversary of this death – to Claudio Abbado’s contribution to Santa Cecilia over 26 seasons of the fifty he was active, though none of his performances here ...

The School of Music at The Ohio State University presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at 3 pm next Sunday, March 8 in Mershon Auditorium. Marshall Haddock conducts the OSU Symphony and OSU’s combined ...

No wonder he looks so ashen. Yet the weariness is only on the outside. For, armed with his fluttering fingers, Gergiev took charge at the Barbican of a zinging Verdi performance, fierily dramatic, ...