It started in the late 1980s. It's reaching its culmination this season. For 28 years, one of the central focuses of the Sarasota Opera has been to stage every opera, and virtually every note of every ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Scheduled for Nov. 15 and 17, the concert will include selections from the great ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

Although “Attila,” the obscure Verdi opera that premiers in Seattle on Saturday, is based on the tale of Attila the Hun, the great Italian composer barely veiled a nationalistic theme. First staged in ...

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 ...