Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards at the First Crusade) is the Verdi opera that immediately followed Nabucco, the composer’s third opera and breakthrough success. Like Nabucco, it was first ...

Don Carlos, Movements: ~ Charles Castronovo, Tenor Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra Constantine Orbelian, Conductor Don Carlos, Movements: ~ Charles Castronovo, Tenor Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra ...

For only the second time in Academy Awards history, two of the five nominated songs are from documentaries-and one of them is ...

Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera is a story where everyone knows what will happen, but no one can stop it. A brash and naïve king called Gustavo visits a fortune teller, who predicts his assassination at ...

In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi Cycle ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

On Saturday and Sunday, local operatic group the Verdi Chorus concludes its 40th anniversary season with its spring concert, Star-Crossed!, featuring a mix of classics including sequences from ...