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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 ...

You have to go back a long way – 60 years, in fact – to find Wexford Festival Opera presenting anything as popular as the opening work of this year’s festival. Back in 1965 Verdi’s La Traviata was an ...

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 ...

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Taking a classic opera and turning it on its head, Karin Henkel, a leading director in contemporary German theatre, offers a new interpretation of Verdi's masterpiece. In a world dominated by men, ...

In 2018 the then artistic director, Daniel Kramer, ditched this existing, exemplary staging of Verdi’s tale of consumptive woe with his own unrevivable, derisory version. Thankfully, Peter Konwitschny ...

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 ...