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Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...

‘Scilla Cristiano is one of the best lyric sopranos in the world,” says Joshua Collier, artistic director of Opera Vermont. “I’ve heard so many lyric sopranos, household names that appear on big ...

On the bicentennial of the composer's birth, his music seems keenly suited to our triumphs and our failures. His operas may star dukes,... Verdi's Operas: A Vigorous Soundtrack To Human Nature Verdi's ...

In a Verdi revival at the Royal Opera, two top female singers are discovering, and rediscovering, characters from a real-life royal love triangle. By David Belcher Reporting from London Across the ...

And the principals are a powerful team. There are three male voices and one female – the opera notably puts tenor, baritone and bass into contention, as each wants the same girl, Donna Elvira (Nadine ...

Rossini’s Maometto Secondo and Verdi’s Don Carlo, each among their composer’s grandest and most ambitious works, arrived last week courtesy of Teatro Nuovo and the Metropolitan Opera, respectively.

As he prepares to start his 43rd year as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi said he is working toward the same goals now that he had at the start of his long tenure. “My goal is ...

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