The statue of Giuseppe Verdi, set high above a patch of daffodils, draws scant attention from people hurrying to the subway at Seventy-second Street and Broadway, or even from people lounging on the ...

VIVA VERDI!, an Oscar-nominated feature documentary, will open the United Nations General Assembly's Healing Arts Week with a special screening at Film at Lincoln Center on September 20th, presented ...

Perhaps Verdi's most famous tune, Va pensiero is claimed as the anthem for Italian unification, a call to arms for the oppressed everywhere. But, in fact, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves acquired its ...

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 ...

While some great opera composers thrive on nuance and suggestion, Giuseppe Verdi had a real talent for getting to the heart of the matter. When he turned Shakespeare's Othello into the opera Otello, ...

Verdi’s operas are well known – but what about his work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? On the eve of the composer’s 200th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill ...

2013 marks the bicentennial of the legendary Italian opera composer’s birth, making it a perfect time to explore the remote countryside that saw his beginnings as a musician and a man. “I have been, I ...

This week we turn to the Shakespeare of opera, a composer whose glorious gift for melodies and compassionate gaze celebrates life in all its variety Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is one of the greatest ...

A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum reveals the crucial role Ricordi played in creating these late masterpieces. By Zachary Woolfe The pair of operatic masterpieces that capped Verdi’s ...