Xu Zhong, president of Shanghai Opera House, at the open rehearsal of the Italian opera Falstaff. [Photo provided to ...

San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September ...

Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres ...

San Francisco Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata conducted by Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim in a new staging by director Shawna Lucey. This new vision of a beloved classic, ...

Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth. Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe ...

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 ...

Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others. But he regarded his finest accomplishment not as a particular opera but ...