As the story unfolds in one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, the hero is beheaded at the end. A baby is thrown into a burning fire at the beginning. In between are epic battles between armies.

If only some of the musicianship Quinn Kelsey and Anita Rachvelishvili—the best parts of the Met's new Il Trovatore—would rub off on conductor Marco Armiliato. Mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili illuminates ...

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Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore will be staged at the Cairo Opera House's main hall on four consecutive evenings, beginning Thursday 14 May Considered one of the summits of Verdi's artistry, Il ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Opening nights at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House are always festive affairs, filled with anticipation, and Opera Colorado’s opening of Guiseppe Verdi’s “Il ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental and monumentally exciting opera (1853, composed immediately after Rigoletto and before La Traviata) roars into Opera in the Heights and flattens everything else around. It ...

Tenor Brian Vu and mezzo-soprano Anne Maguire in Il Trovatore at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim If you think the art of opera is dying, I turn your attention to Opera in the Heights ...

Adele Thomas’s visually arresting production mixes levity with tragedy, as fervent orchestral play is matched by expressive singing from a fine cast ‘I’ve lost all reason!” sings Count di Luna halfway ...

A hooded Romani woman (Shay Bloch as Azucena) slowly pulls an empty wooden cart as she passes a Spanish captain (Leonard Bernad as Ferrando) who boasts he will ...

Opera in the Heights (OH!), after a year and a half of alternative programming online and outdoors, has announced its return to fully-staged productions in its home venue, Lambert Hall. Headlining the ...