Giuseppe Verdi was just 26, a fledgling composer and newly widowed when he wrote his first comic opera, “Un Giorno di Regno” (“A One-Day Reign”). But the two-act comedy bombed and closed after one ...

Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...

With its current “Season of Verdi,” the Maryland Lyric Opera is chiefly celebrating one of the world’s greatest and most popular opera composers, and more specifically, Giuseppe Verdi’s most ...

As a soprano and baritone, respectively, Karen Kanakis and Jacob Lassetter don’t often get to reprise their real-life roles as husband and wife on stage. More often, if they happen to be working ...

Equally mischievous: Henry Waddington as Falstaff and Louise Winter as Mistress Quickly in Opera North’s production of Verdi’s Falstaff She says this shows they’re aspirational but living ...

Verdi’s last opera, composed when he was a ripe old 80, may have an elderly gent as its central character — but “Falstaff” is so full of rollicking life that it’s an excellent show for a young company ...