Giuseppe Verdi News

Violetta Valéry ist jung, begehrt und todkrank. In der glamourösen Halbwelt von Paris führt sie als Edelprostituierte ein ausschweifendes, aber isoliertes Leben im Luxus – bis sie mit Alfredo den Mann trifft, für den sie alles aufgeben und mit dem sie einen bürgerlichen Neuanfang wagen will. Doch die Moralvorstellungen von Alfredos Familie sowie das Fortschreiten ihrer Krankheit machen Violettas Pläne zunichte.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov are proud to announce a 2022-2023 Season filled with top guest artists and varied programming including lesser known important works and a range of genres from thrilling dances to enthralling arias.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov have announced a 2022-2023 Season filled with top guest artists and varied programming including lesser known important works and a range of genres from thrilling dances to enthralling arias.

Spectacular party scenes, gorgeous period costumes, and show-stopping arias bring 1850s Paris to lavish life in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. The production marks the first in-person opera performances staged at the Canadian Opera Company’s downtown opera house since the beginning of the pandemic.

The season includes four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Carmen, La traviata, The Shining, and Sondheim on Sondheim in addition to live performances of the holiday classic, Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Kansas City premiere of Listen, Wilhelmina!, an imaginative children's opera at the Michael and Ginger Frost Production Arts Building. All Kauffman Center performances will be accompanied by the Kansas City Symphony.

The tragic incidents of the last week have shocked us all. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on the ideals of freedom and democracy that we share with the people of Ukraine. The works we perform always raise the question of humanity and take sides against the injustice that befalls individuals as well as entire peoples.

The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced today that the New York premiere of Heartbeat Opera’s QUANDO, a short film and live performance mashup, will play a strictly limited engagement starting on April 7. Just five performances will be offered in The Club Car through April 9.

Single tickets are now on-sale for all of the Canadian Opera Company's 2022 in-person programming. 

Cincinnati Opera today shared updated cast, production, and schedule details for its 2022 Summer Festival, which will take place June 18 through July 31, 2022. After two seasons away, the company returns this summer to its longtime performance venues, Cincinnati Music Hall and the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA).

Seattle Opera’s 2022/23 season will bring a poignant world premiere (A Thousand Splendid Suns), a concert performance of an alluring French powerhouse (Samson and Delilah), and stagings of three cherished favorites (The Elixir of Love, Tristan and Isolde, and La traviata) to the Seattle Opera stage.

San Francisco Opera's 99th Season continues June 4–July 3 at the War Memorial Opera House. The 2022 Summer Season includes a new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni; a return engagement of Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang's Dream of the Red Chamber; and Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in a one-night-only concert featuring the music of Giuseppe Verdi.

Due to delays caused by the recent severe weather and its aftermath, the Greek National Opera has announced new performance dates for its upcoming Otello production.

Due to expected winter weather, the The Met: Live in HD presentation of Giuseppe Verdi’s RIGOLETTO originally scheduled for Saturday, January 29, has been postponed to an encore performance on Saturday, February 5 at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre. All ticketholders will be contacted by the Box Office.

As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company’s 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera’s glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim’s music directorship and a renewed commitment to innovation.

The 2021-22 season of The Met: Live in HD will continue with Giuseppe Verdi's RIGOLETTO on Saturday, January 29 at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.

The Met rings in the new year with the gala premiere of a bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy from Bartlett Sher. The Tony Award­-winning director resets the opera's action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber, themselves boasting a combined eight Tony Awards. Read all the reviews!

Programmed by long-standing Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark OAM, this richly diverse season traverses choral classics by Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Handel; the glorious colours of Puccini; living repertoire by Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre; and six newly commissioned short works from local Sydney composers Jessica Wells, Aija Draguns, Tomas Parrish-Cheynoweth, Aiden Rosa, Maria Lopes, and Melbourne’s Stuart Greenbaum.

The 2022 Season of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo is dedicated to the thirty years since the Mafia massacres, and it's scheduled to open on 20 January with Giuseppe Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers), conducted by the theatre's musical director Omer Meir Wellber and staged by Palermo-born director Emma Dante.

Named for the groundbreaking African American contralto, the Marian Anderson Vocal Award recognizes a young American singer in opera, oratorio, or recital repertoire with outstanding promise for a significant career. Earlier this year, Washington National Opera (WNO) named tenor Frederick Ballentine as the 2021 recipient and will present him in concert on Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

This January, New York City Opera (under the direction of Michael Capasso, General Director) will produce its latest world premiere of a new American opera, Ricky Ian Gordon's THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, Dominick Balletta, Executive Director).