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

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 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...