Now to a birthday party. Every year, fans of Giuseppe Verdi gather in New York to celebrate him and his operas, like "La Traviata," "Aida" and "Otello." The latest gathering was Friday, marking 212 ...

La traviata or The Fallen Woman is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ...

Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...

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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. By David Belcher Teatro Nuovo, which trains ...

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 ...