Verdi persevered in his ambitions by taking private lessons. After his studies with one Vincenzo Lavigna, from whom he acquired a thorough mastery of counter point, fugue and canon, Verdi applied for ...

Giuseppe Verdi spent his last Christmas and saw in his last New Year in the comfort of his suite at the Grand Hotel in Milan. Eighty-seven-years-old, he was in vigorous health, though he would ...

If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, opera patrons are rewarded with his aria.

Strehler died in 1997. Now, near the start of a season packed with new productions, the Milan theatre has revived his 1980 staging of Falstaff, Verdi’s last opera and a crowning achievement of ...

DUBAI - With five runners from four different countries, the 850,000 dirham (S$316,000) Group 2 Cape Verdi, the feature on the nine-race Dubai Racing Carnival card at Meydan on Jan 17, is a truly ...

for Othello , Outstanding Costume Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Henry IV , Best Costume Design of a Play (Tony Awards) for The Rivals, Outstanding Costume Design (Drama Desk Awards ...

Soprano Elaine Alvarez as Desdemona. (Photo courtesy of LVO) An operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play “Othello”, Verdi’s work is a “tragic story of deceit, jealousy and rage … that ranks among his ...

The Metropolitan Opera opened the New Year with its first new staging of Verdi’s Aida in 37 years. Regulars had every right to be trepidatious: A few years ago we witnessed Gounod’s Faust drop the ...

One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was written and premiered in 1924.