By coincidence, the initials V-E-R-D-I stood for ‘Vittorio Emmanuel, Re D’Italia’ and everywhere, all over Italy, the composer’s name/political slogan was to be seen. The cries of ‘Viva Verdi’ could ...

Calgary Opera’s second offering this season is Donizetti’s fun-filled, comic opera Don Pasquale. Although it is set in Italy ...

After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...

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Andrea Bocelli will open the 2025 continuation of his 30th anniversary tour singing with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra at the ...

In another of AAM’s thoroughly enjoyable evenings, the superb band with their matchless knowledge of historical context ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

From the beginning, Arvo Volmer’s career has been closely tied with the Estonian National Opera, where he was appointed to ...

The Bohemian composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, born midway between Handel and Mozart, turned the tale into an opera revolutionary ... Singing in the original Italian, with English supertitles ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...

The “warm, lush, relatable” score, Joseph said, reminded her of the tuneful, catchy operas of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. Not only was Dédé a New Orleans native, but he had created ...

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...