Carlisle Floyd’s “Susannah” on Thursday and Sunday; Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il travotore” on Saturday; Giacomo Puccini’s “La boheme” on Friday; and Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” on Saturday. All ...

Palm Beach Opera will present a lavish production of Verdi's “Rigoletto” March 20-22. It will be the opera's last performance of the 2026 season.

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards at the First Crusade) is the Verdi opera that immediately followed Nabucco, the composer’s third opera and breakthrough success. Like Nabucco, it was first ...

In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi Cycle ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s “La traviata” has been recognized as the most-performed opera in the world. Most fans know it’s the story of Violetta, a consumptive courtesan (a kept mistress for wealthy men) who ...

When the Metropolitan Opera last revived Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” a reviewer bemoaned its “four soul-numbing hours of ludicrous plot twists.” That’s harsh. But there’s no question the libretto ...

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The Sarasota Opera is nearing the final seasons of its remarkable Verdi Cycle, and while we have enjoyed many Verdi rarities, artistic director Victor DeRenzi has waited until this late hour to stage ...

SANTA MONICA, CA (April 7, 2020) – In place of its previously scheduled Live Concert on April 18, The Verdi Chorus will offer its first online concert: a streaming of its Spring 2018 program The Force ...