Giuseppe Verdi News

First look photos! Women take charge in Opera San José’s rollicking production of Verdi’s Falstaff. Adapted from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, this hilarious and beloved comedic masterpiece offers a joyful look at one of the Bard’s most popular characters, the boisterous knight Sir John Falstaff, and his misadventures at the hands of four witty women.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), en colaboración con la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), ofrecerán el programa Música Inbal en tu escuela. El arte del piano se desarrollará todos los jueves de febrero con un concierto que integra diversos estilos musicales a través de las obras de compositores de renombre internacional y la participación de destacados intérpretes y artistas. 

 The Berlin Staatsoper has announced that Daniele Rustioni, 39, will take over conducting duties for Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper in a revival of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo for all performances (June 28 to July 14, 2023).

Internationally acclaimed pianist, master teacher, chamber musician, conductor, and vocal coach Warren Jones, comes to the Curtis Institute of Music, February 13–⁠17, 2023, for a highly-anticipated artist residency featuring a private master class in collaboration with Curtis’s distinguished vocal studies and piano studies departments led by Miloš Repický, Hirsig Family Chair in Vocal Studies and Amy Yang, associate dean of piano studies and artistic initiatives.

Con motivo de los 75 años de la Compañía Nacional de Ópera (CNO) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), instancia de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, presentará la Gala Elīna Garanča en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes, el jueves 2 de marzo, a las 20:00 horas. 

This March sees opportunities to catch choreographer Léa Tirabasso's extraordinary 2021 work Starving Dingoes in London and Brighton. Strange, joyous and brutal, it is a ferocious rite of a performance which questions what human beings will do to belong and to survive.

IL PICCOLO PRINCIPE al TEATRO SISTINA La storia più letta al mondo in un allestimento teatrale di grande effetto in scena dal 1 al 12 febbraio al Sistina e in tour in tutta Italia

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company’s 101st season, which opens September 8, 2023. See production details, how to purchase tickets and more!

The rarely performed Ernani is often referred to as Giuseppe Verdi's first masterpiece. The grand master of Italian Romanticism no longer opted for a predominantly political approach, but brought the individual to the fore. Verdi found the ideal raw material in Victor Hugo's play Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan, one of the key works of French Romanticism in which the emphasis came to lie on raw and realistic emotions.

Joanne Telesford, Qshans Thode and Robin van den Akker will star alongside Gaia Aikman, April Darby and Naidjim Severina in the world premiere of the re-imagined Aida in the Netherlands. See performance dates and how to purchase tickets.

Women take charge in Opera San José’s rollicking production of Verdi’s Falstaff. Adapted from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.

Giuseppe Verdi’s La forza del destino starts with a scene of Donna Leonora and Don Alvaro’s moonlight tryst which is suddenly interrupted by the girl’s father, Marchese di Calatrava. Alvaro draws a pistol, most probably one with a flintlock mechanism, because that was what used in the 18th century.

The rarely performed Ernani is often referred to as Giuseppe Verdi's first masterpiece. The grand master of Italian Romanticism no longer opted for a predominantly political approach, but brought the individual to the fore. Performances run through 22 January.

Born to an Italian mother and Persian father, Alessandro Deljavan began learning to play piano before the age of two and debuted in concert at age three. He has since performed extensively across Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Umberto Giordano's FEDORA, Saturday, January 14 at 12:55 pm ET, in the Warner Theatre's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre. 

The Greek National Opera will present the premiere of a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff, staged by acclaimed opera director and Artistic Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Stephen Langridge, conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will helm a production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera Aida to open the 2024-25 season at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) offers an exciting start to the new year with South African opera sensation Pretty Yende. The widely acclaimed soprano, whose introduction to opera at 16 was through a TV commercial, is coming to Princeton to perform arias from Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata as well as Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

The Power of Destiny opens a series of operas that Giuseppe Verdi wrote for a foreign commission. 

The rarely performed Ernani is often referred to as Giuseppe Verdi's first masterpiece. The grand master of Italian Romanticism no longer opted for a predominantly political approach, but brought the individual to the fore. Verdi found the ideal raw material in Victor Hugo's play Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan, one of the key works of French Romanticism in which the emphasis came to lie on raw and realistic emotions.