Giuseppe Verdi News

The Peterborough Players' Arts on Screen 2015-2016 Series presents its second Metropolitan Opera Live offering, Giuseppe Verdi's OTELLO, this Saturday, October 17th at 1pm.

The 58th season of Kansas City Ballet will open with the Kansas City Premiere of The Three Musketeers, choreography by André Prokovsky with music by Giuseppe Verdi, arranged by Guy Woolfenden. The production runs tonight, Oct. 9, through the 18th at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and will be accompanied by Kansas City Symphony conducted by Kansas City Ballet Music Director Ramona Pansegrau.

Board Chairman Daniel K. Meyer, M.D. announced today that Opera Philadelphia's Board of Directors has extended David B. Devan's contract as the company's General Director and President, and Corrado Rovaris's contract as the Jack Mulroney Music Director, through the end of the 2019-2020 Season.

OPERA San Antonio's Board of Directors and Chairman Mel Weingart today announced the slate for OPERA San Antonio's second season as the Resident Opera Company of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

The Peterborough Players' Arts on Screen 2015-2016 Series presents its first Metropolitan Opera Live offering, Giuseppe Verdi's IL TROVATORE, this Saturday, October 3rd at 1pm at the Peterbrough Players Theatre.

La prestigiosa Compañia Lirica Giuseppe Verdi bajo la direccion general de Adriana Segal, realiza una intensa y maravillosa puesta con mas de 90 artistas en escena, siendo Buenos Aires la primera ciudad Latinoamericana donde se representa completa la primera obra que el genial compositor italiano Giuseppe Verdi compuso a los 26 años. La opera OBERTO, CONTE DI SAN BONIFACIO, se presentara el proximo 24, 26 y 27 de septiembre, en el Teatro Avenida.

The Canadian Opera Company opens its 2015/2016 season with Verdi's enduring masterpiece, La Traviata. This sumptuous new COC production is set in the demi-monde of glittering 1850s Paris, evoking the social realities, rhythms and debauchery of a rapidly changing society.

KANSAS CITY, MO (Sept. 8, 2015) — The 58th season of Kansas City Ballet will open with the Kansas City Premiere of The Three Musketeers, choreography by André Prokovsky with music by Giuseppe Verdi, arranged by Guy Woolfenden. The production runs Oct. 9-18 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and will be accompanied by Kansas City Symphony conducted by Kansas City Ballet Music Director Ramona Pansegrau.

Kansas City Ballet will present the 5th Annual KC Dance Day at the Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity today, Aug. 29th from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

One cannot imagine what the first audience felt when Verdi broke the mould of the requiem.

The Ocean State Summer Pops Orchestra, one of Rhode Island's cultural gems, will for the first time, present a concert at the Ocean State Theatre Company's state-of-the-art facility located at 1245 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick tonight, August 15 at 7:00 pm. This will also be the first time that a full orchestra has performed at the theatre.

Come experience the power of music on a whole new level at the Seattle Opera premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco this month. Viewers will be visually transported to ancient Babylon through magnificent costumes, awe-inspiring projections, and a new staging configuration that brings the music and performers closer to the audience than ever before.

Plays through 8/8/15

PITTSBURGH – Performing in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1977, Randy Newman, whose music speaks to multiple generations, closes the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Summer with the Symphony: Today Night Icons series tonight, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Heinz Hall.

Sarasota, FL – Sarasota Opera is proud to announce casting for the 2015-2016 fall and winter season, truly the most climactic in the company's 57 year history. The season will feature the final two installments of the 28 year Verdi Cycle – The Battle of Legnano and Aida- in a grand spectacle of music, vocal prowess, awe-inspiring choruses, sumptuous scenery, and luxurious costumes. In addition, the company will present Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, and Mozart's comedic Così fan tutte. 

Sarasota Opera is proud to announce casting for the 2015-2016 fall and winter season, truly the most climactic in the company's 57 year history. The season will feature the final two installments of the 28 year Verdi Cycle – The Battle of Legnano and Aida- in a grand spectacle of music, vocal prowess, awe-inspiring choruses, sumptuous scenery, and luxurious costumes. In addition, the company will present Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, and Mozart's comedic Così fan tutte.

The Ocean State Summer Pops Orchestra, one of Rhode Island's cultural gems, will for the first time, present a concert at the Ocean State Theatre Company's state-of-the-art facility located at 1245 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick on August 15 at 7:00 pm. This will also be the first time that a full orchestra has performed at the theatre.

Opera Australia pairs the beautiful grandeur of 17th Century Spain with Giuseppe Verdi's fabulous score as they bring DON CARLOS back to the Sydney Opera House.

Inspired by the musical connection of people, place, and culture, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins, announces the 2015 summer's free concerts at the DCR's Hatch Shell. Free concerts will be held every Wednesday evening (7 p.m.) beginning today, July 15, thru August 26, 2015.