Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. After the death in 1848 of Gaetano Donizetti (a virtual composing machine who cranked out over 60 ...

The Georgia Museum of Art is taking its visitors back to the Paris Opera scene during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s with its new exhibit open now through April 22. The museum’s exhibit “Opera in ...

Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff, at the Morgan Library and Museum, through January 5, 2020. The creation of the final two operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), completed when the musical genius ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres Siciliennes,” a French work experts say has long been overshadowed by an Italian version Verdi did not produce ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger walks ...