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 ...

Quinn Kelsey has had success after success at the Metropolitan Opera. These three performances secure his reputation as a ...

Quinn Kelsey commandingly charts each step in Macbeth’s decline in Louisa Proske’s postapocalyptic setting of Verdi’s opera, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season.

In many ways, Wagner and Verdi were markedly different. Wagner has been called a “racist ass” by Leon Botstein, a music authority, orchestra conductor, and president of Bard College. William Berger ...

Richard Fairman explores Verdi's creative process, Sir Mark Elder reflects on Verdi's masterpiece, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings We have been writing about classical music for our ...

Set in colonial Peru, this first UK staging of Verdi’s 1845 opera on colonialism and compassion is consistently dramatic with superb singing The opening opera of this year’s Buxton international ...

New York's Metropolitan Opera opened its new season in September with a performance of acts from three operas by Giuseppe Verdi an American tribute coinciding with the international observance of the ...

2013 marks the bicentennial of the legendary Italian opera composer’s birth, making it a perfect time to explore the remote countryside that saw his beginnings as a musician and a man. “I have been, I ...