Producer Chad A. Verdi with 'Vault' actor Burt Young. EXCLUSIVE: Copper comes from Arizona, and Peaches from Georgia, but if we had to rewrite the lyrics to the Blossom Dearie standard “Rhode Island ...

Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure. This ...

Riccardo Muti has been conducting the Verdi Requiem for, what? Fifty years? He has devoted much of his life to Verdi, and the Requiem stands at the summit, you could say, of Verdi’s output. Muti has ...

My husband and I are fighting over "Un ballo in maschera." Not about whether it's good, or what cast is better, or whether it's Verdi's best opera, or what key a certain passage is in. We're fighting, ...

“This is my finest achievement,” opera composer Giuseppe Verdi said of Casa di Riposo per Musicisti. The “House of Repose for Musicians” in Milan is the retirement home known as “Casa Verdi.” He built ...

Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...

Richard Fairman explores Verdi's creative process, Sir Mark Elder reflects on Verdi's masterpiece, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings We have been writing about classical music for our ...