Ambition, Blood, and Guilt: Verdi's MACBETH Is Staged at The Theatro Municipal in A Bold New Production
by Claudio Erlichman - Oct 30, 2025
From October 31 to November 9, the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo stages Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth in a bold new production by Elisa Ohtake, with musical direction by Roberto Minczuk. Inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy, the opera delves into ambition, guilt, and power through Verdi’s dramatic score. Ohtake’s contemporary take transforms the medieval tale into a striking visual experience, where excess, collapse, and madness echo today’s world.
Interview: Alexandra LoBianco Returns to Center Stage in Boston Lyric Opera's MACBETH
by R. Scott Reedy - Oct 10, 2025
As a dramatic soprano, Alexandra LoBianco is accustomed to performing some of the most challenging roles in the repertoire, including Leonore in “Fidelio,” with the Vienna State Opera and North Carolina Opera, Brünnhilde in “Die Walküre,” Minnie in “La fanciulla del West,” with Des Moines Metro Opera, and the title roles in “Turandot,” with Des Moines Metro Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and Maryland Lyric Opera, and “Aida” at Seattle Opera, to name but a few.
AIDA is Now Playing at the Paris Opera
by Stephi Wild - Sep 30, 2025
Tel est le dilemme d’Aida, princesse éthiopienne réduite en esclavage en Égypte, confrontée de surcroît à la rivalité d’Amneris, la fille du pharaon, qui aime le même homme qu’elle, Radamès.
Photos: Giuseppe Verdi’s RIGOLETTO at San Francisco Opera
by Emmy Rice - Sep 6, 2025
San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September 5–27), led by Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim. See the photos here!
Theatro São Pedro Presents Verdi’s FALSTAFF, a Comic Opera Based on Shakespeare
by Claudio Erlichman - Aug 12, 2025
Theatro São Pedro's opera season brings the comic opera 'Falstaff' by renowned Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi to the public, with musical direction by Ira Levin and staging by Caetano Vilela. With a libretto by Arrigo Boito—written based on the first and second parts of William Shakespeare's plays 'Henry IV' and 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'—Falstaff is Verdi's last opera. Divided into three acts, the title is a lyrical commedia that Verdi released to the world after a lifetime of composing tragedies.