Is there a composer who is more adored than Giuseppe Verdi? There are composers who command more respect than Verdi, but no one receives more love. To honor the recent anniversary of Verdi’s passing ...

Giuseppe Verdi, composer of Nabucco, La Traviata and Aida, was an inspired tunesmith who took the operatic world by storm with a stream of hit titles. 'Celeste Aida' in a stunning new recording from ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others ...

He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime and, today, his works are the most performed operas around the world. He began composing music at 13, and when asked to step in as a last-minute ...

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.

A critic whose love of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi goes back nearly 60 years traveled to northern Italy to visit the places that shaped the man and his music. Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of his home ...

Two hundred years ago this week, Giuseppe Verdi was born in an Italian town midway between Bologna and Milan. On the occasion of his bicentennial, All Things Considered wanted to know what makes the ...

Verdi’s operas are well known – but what about his work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? On the eve of the composer’s 200th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill ...

There’s been a certain amount of baffled grumbling in recent months that Verdi’s bicentenary hasn’t been as widely marked as Wagner’s. I’m not surprised or worried by this. Wagner is Marmite: you love ...

DEAR JERRY: My copy of "A Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria)," by Miguel Rios (A&M 1193), states the song is "Based on the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony." Pop music records using ...

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 ...

MILAN -- Before the pandemic, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move "closer, closer, closer" when they played together. "Because you need to hear each ...