Giuseppe Verdi

The Opera presented this time was the mostly forgotten "IL CORSARO" by Giuseppe Verdi, which is based on the poem THE CORSAIR by Lord Byron.

Greek News 2009

Orchestra of the Teatro Liricio 'Giuseppe Verdi' Triest.

Opera Today 2009

And while the Italians did give us the Renaissance and Giuseppe Verdi and Sophia Loren, a lot of Americans are still fuming over that unpleasant Il Duce interlude back in the day, so they're off the list, too.

Bearing Gifts to the Needy Greeks Joe Queenan 2011

Although three ensemble numbers are ragtime masterpieces—"We're Goin' Around," "Aunt Dinah Has Blowed De Horn" and the truly grand finale, "A Real Slow Drag"—the other numbers are composed in an idiom drawn from Gay '90s balladry, barbershop quartet and gospel song rather than the accepted manner of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Only two of them, Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" (1887) and "Falstaff" (1893, based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"), are solidly entrenched in the international opera-house repertoire.

Making Shakespeare Sing: A Modest Proposal for a Costly Festival Terry Teachout 2011

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premiered in the composer's 80th year, and throughout his long life he died at 87, in 1901 Verdi "was constantly productive, even if - in later years - he took his careful time."

Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age" 2011

Take Giuseppe Verdi, whose Requiem, first performed in 1874, is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western religious art.

How Can Skeptics Make Convincing Religious Art? Terry Teachout 2012

"Let me give a shout out to my dawg Giuseppe Verdi; bro', you trippin'."

The Gotcha Videos You Haven't Seen Joe Queenan 2011

If not much happens in "The Cherry Orchard" at the Palais Garnier, there's nonstop action in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the Opéra Bastille—seduction, kidnapping and murder, along with soaring melody, a roster of Verdi's greatest hits and superb performances by Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic and Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze as Rigoletto and Gilda.

Fénelon's Gnarled 'Orchard' Judy Fayard 2012

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premiered in the composer's 80th year, and throughout his long life he died at 87, in 1901 Verdi "was constantly productive, even if - in later years - he took his careful time."

Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age" 2011