Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For only the second time in Academy Awards history, two of the five nominated songs are from documentaries—and one of them is an ...

Disguises, ill-fated lovers and improbable coincidences are staples of operatic plots, and the story of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" staggers with a load of them. Opera fans willing to suspend their ...

This year's Best Original Song nominees at the Oscars are a blues number, a K-Pop ditty, a Nick Cave ballad, an inspirational Diane Warren track ... and an aria? Well, yeah. Nicholas Pike's "Sweet ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of a new album devoted to Verdi opera choruses. Lloyd reminds us that there's more to opera than just the typical aria, trio ...

In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi Cycle ...

For Opera Colorado music director Ari Pelto, Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera — written when the composer was 79 years old — is more than a comic epilogue to a long career filled with tragic music dramas.

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A critic whose love of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi goes back nearly 60 years traveled to northern Italy to visit the places that shaped the man and his music. Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of his home ...

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