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 ...

He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime and, today, his works are the most performed operas around the world. He began composing music at 13, and when asked to step in as a last-minute ...

Considering Lyric Opera of Chicago’s long and honorable history as a haven for the stage works of Giuseppe Verdi, his “Nabucco” has led a curiously spotty performance life at the company once dubbed ...

Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...

The three act opera “Rigoletto” — written by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and based on the play “Le roi s’amuse” by Victor Hugo — has been a hit since performance one. Why?

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 ...

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 ...

Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and Tchaikovsky. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Michael Mayer directs Verdi’s ...

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 ...

A tremendous Tannhäuser led the way in Daniel Barenboim's whirlwind Staatsoper festival in Berlin, writes Fiona Maddocks There is much to recommend ENO's new production of Rigoletto, writes Fiona ...