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 ...

The Met's 2026-27 season will also include the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's Lincoln in the Bardo, the ...

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.

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Verdi's Macbeth on November 13 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The contest ...

IntroductionI attended a performance of Verdi's Requiem in a concert hall. I realized that this is a piece whose enjoyment is ...

Giuseppi Verdi’s 1853 opera La Traviata was a shocker when it was first performed. Nineteenth-century audiences didn’t expect to watch a sex worker die of tuberculosis at the opera. Nor did they ...

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 ...

Verdi’s terrifying choral depiction of Judgment Day is up there with the most unsettling musical experiences. From its medieval origins to its meaning, here’s what you need to know. Four stabs from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composer lived in Villa Verdi near Busseto for 50 years and it has been run as a museum while owners argued A country house lived in by Giuseppe Verdi for 50 years is being put up for sale, ending a ...