Munson will screen Verdi's "Macbeth" live from the Metropolitan Opera at 1 p.m. Oct. 17 in Utica, featuring Quinn Kelsey and ...

I listen to one song a day and keep a record of it.Basically, I choose a song related toa musician born on that day.I post ...

Today, in Milan, Italy, there is a prestigious conservatory called the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory.The name, of course, comes ...

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 ...

Lise Davidsen’s Verdi, Anthony Davis’s “The Central Park Five” and a new take on Britten’s cello suites are among our selections. Quinn Kelsey commandingly charts each step in Macbeth’s decline in ...

“This is my finest achievement,” opera composer Giuseppe Verdi said of Casa di Riposo per Musicisti. The “House of Repose for Musicians” in Milan is the retirement home known as “Casa Verdi.” He built ...

On October 10, 2026, the 213th anniversary of the birth of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music, will be celebrated. The author of ...

With Thanksgiving in mind, we're exploring a few appetizing tales of composers and their culinary inclinations. Look for stories about Rossini, Mahler, Berg, Paganini, Schoenberg and others to follow.

Buddha observed that “on a heap of rubbish ... the lily will grow.” Indeed, the rubbish that men have heaped on the world—violence, injustice, and poverty—have been the soil in which other men in turn ...

Europe was already convulsed by questions of moral duplicity when La traviata’s Violetta took to the stage. Ahead of a new documentary about Verdi’s masterpiece, Tom Service examines why the tragic ...

Facility he created for retired musicians snaps up missives for knock-down price after authorities rule buyer must live in Italy A home for retired musicians created by the composer Giuseppe Verdi has ...

It's that time of year again when freshly steamed curtains are rising on opera stages across the country, introducing another new season of performances. And this time, one composer will be popping up ...