Filled with emotional depth, Violetta in "La Traviata" is one of opera's most glorious heroines. Verdi's sumptuous masterpiece recently returned to La Scala in Milan. 



The cast includes the luminous...

In this edition of Musica, we take a look at one of the most loved opera's in the world, Verdi's masterpiece "La Traviata", which is being staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.



Juan Diego...

Shakespeare invented him, Verdi made him immortal: "Falstaff" is a comic opera about a bon vivant which is back on the stage of the Royal Opera House in London in a production by the Canadian Robert Carsen. (it...

With an epic drama on the power of fate, Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" [The Force of Destiny] paints an immense canvas in one of the Italian composer's most acclaimed masterpieces.



The...

Verdi's "breakthrough" piece of opera





The rarely performed Verdi gem, "Luisa Miller", illuminates the Metropolitan Opera in New York with a sensational cast. It is a heart-wrenching...

A "precious" partnership





Plácido Domingo and Sonya Yoncheva, at opposite ends of their operatic careers, combine to perform Giuseppe Verdi's epic, "Luisa Miller". It is a heart-wrenching...

Verdi's "breakthrough" piece of opera



The rarely performed Verdi gem, "Luisa Miller", illuminates the Metropolitan Opera in New York with a sensational cast. It is a heart-wrenching tragedy about...

Verdi's "breakthrough" piece of opera



The rarely performed Verdi gem, "Luisa Miller", illuminates the Metropolitan Opera in New York with a sensational cast. It is a heart-wrenching tragedy about...

A remarkable take on Verdi’s Macbeth has opened at the Athens Festival. An adaptation by the director Brett Bailey and the South African theatre company, Third World Bunfight the show premiered in Cape Town in 2014 and...

Verdi’s vibrant masterpiece Rigoletto is currently being staged at the Liceu in Barcelona. Musica caught up with French tenor Benjamin Bernheim.

Musica meets French baritone Ludovic Tézier, the lead role in Verdi's dark drama Simon Boccanegra at the Zurich Opera House.

Verdi's tragic Otello is an enormous challenge for any conductor: from the rousing storm at the beginning to the quiet "Ave Maria" at the end. We delve into the craft of charismatic conductor Gustavo Dudamel as he inspires in Barcelona...

Some academics in Saskatchewan are turning their backs on travel south of the border as the U.S. political landscape continues to shift under the policies of President Donald Trump.

A German trade union had called for strikes at 13 major German airports to take place on Monday - but then staged the strike at Hamburg airport on Sunday.

Ticket holders in formal evening wear walk into the Lincoln Center to see Verdi's 'La Traviata' / everyone standing in line / CU chandelier / people walking into the auditorium looking around / audience seated in boxes above the main...

Nov.26 -- Andre Scheer, Verdi labor union Representative for Retail Workers, said that the union was fighting for higher wages and safer working conditions for employees in Amazon's warehouses. Verdi called a strike over Black Friday,...

VOICED : Verdi vivo en su ciudad natal

1. GVs Verona

2. VS Salvatore Licitra performing 'Aida' in Verona (21/0
6/02)
3. SOT (Italian) Salvatore Licitra - about the start of his singing career: "Little by little as this thing grew. It then...

CLEAN : German public sector strike grounds more than 1,200 flights

The leader of Italy's right-wing populist League, Matteo Salvini, says he is counting on like-minded parties in other parliamentary groups to join his hard-line eurosceptic movement, with the goal of creating a 150-strong bloc.