What is believed to be the earliest surviving full score of the famous Verdi opera Aida currently resides in the Music Library here at Stanford. The 1876 manuscript has been analyzed closely here at ...

David Rosen walked into France’s Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra National in the summer of 1968 and requested the original materials from when Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlos” premiered at the Paris Opera ...

Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...

Verdi's most neglected opera might be "Alzira," a work seldom seen on stage since its 1845 premiere in Naples, Italy. Vincent La Selva's New York Grand Opera mounted what was billed as the opera's ...

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 ...

Our opera season continues this week with Verdi’s “Falstaff,” a unique masterpiece in that it puts some of Verdi’s most beautiful music in the context of an uproarious comedy, based on Shakespeare. We ...

This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Jamie Barton as Princess Eboli, left, and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi's "Don Carlos." The Metropolitan Opera is presenting the original ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. David Rosen walked into France’s ...