Attila the Hun is hardly a cuddly figure. The 5th century ruler of Central and Eastern Europe was known for his brutal treatment of those he conquered across the continent. And yet bass Young Bok Kim, ...

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 ...

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 ...

People appear in Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York City on March 12, 2020. The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and ...

Jorge de León and Krassimira Stoyanova play it by the numbers in Verdi’s Aïda. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi are not only—for the most part—masterpieces, they are ...

Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, a production by the National Center for the Performing Arts, opens the 2019 NCPA Opera Festival, which runs from April 10 through Aug 4 in Beijing. [Photo ...

Sonja Frisell was a 9-year-old growing up in England when she saw still photos of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” a 1945 movie starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. “My mother wouldn’t take me to it because ...

Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos ...