Giuseppe Verdi News

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet will perform La Traviata beginning next month. Performances will run 11 February - 25 March 2026. Learn more here!

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will welcome the return of the esteemed Maestro Daniele Gatti in January 2026 for a programme featuring masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Mahler.

The Bregenzer Festspiele will return to the shores of Lake Constance next summer with Giuseppe Verdi’s “La traviata” staged on the festival’s famous floating Seebühne.

Sarasota Opera has announced that Maestro Victor DeRenzi, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, has decided to leave the company at the end of his current contract in May 2026.

With La traviata in China, Golden Age in Italy and Cyprus, and Les Nuits d’été in South Africa, the Greek National Opera has successfully completed the first cycle of presenting its artistic work abroad for the 2025/26 season.

​​​​​​​The Dessoff Choirs - led by Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather - will present its annual holiday concerts: Welcome Yule, followed by Messiah Sing.

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.

Guild Opera Co. will present Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi in concert. A musical masterpiece filled with passion, revenge, and a mistaken identity. Learn how to attend!

With this marvelous Aida, WNO kicks off its 70th-anniversary season in grand style.

The University of South Carolina's Betsy Blackmon Dance Company will present its Fall Concert the Koger Center for the Arts. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) and Wattis Foundation Music Director Radu Paponiu will perform five concerts during the 2025–26 season, beginning with their season-opening performance in November.

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.

The Greek National Opera’s tour to China concluded with unprecedented success. The two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata were given this weekend, at the packed Guangming Culture & Arts Center in Shenzhen

To raise the curtain on San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera Guild will present Opera Ball. Learn more about the production here!

Tickets are now on sale at the Sarasota Opera Box Office for the 2025/2026 season. As of Tuesday, September 2, tickets can be purchased in person at the Box Office.

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.

The Emerson Colonial Theatre, an ATG Entertainment venue, will offer an eclectic mix of events this fall. See the full lineup here and learn how to purchase tickets.

San Francisco Opera will open its 103rd season with a new revival of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, running September 5–27, 2025 at the War Memorial Opera House.

Join Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for their first Messiah Spectacular! Join a distinguished roster of conductors, soloists, and a chamber orchestra as you become the chorus!

San Francisco Opera’s 2025–26 season, the tenth under the leadership of Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock, kicks off in September. Learn more about the season!