Popular operas by Italy’s two most famous opera composers ― Puccini and Verdi ― will be staged in Seoul in April. The Seoul Metropolitan Opera Company will stage opera “Tosca,” one of the most ...
Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. After the death in 1848 of Gaetano Donizetti (a virtual composing machine who cranked out over 60 ...
3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists To Raise the Curtain on San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera Guild will present Opera Ball on Friday, ...
The Georgia Museum of Art is taking its visitors back to the Paris Opera scene during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s with its new exhibit open now through April 22. The museum’s exhibit “Opera in ...
Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff, at the Morgan Library and Museum, through January 5, 2020. The creation of the final two operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), completed when the musical genius ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Scheduled for Nov. 15 and 17, the concert will include selections from the great ...
Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by 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 ...
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 ...