There are different versions of Verdi’s masterpiece about love and duty with director Davide Livermore’s new production drawing on the…
Chester Cathedral is many things to many people: a vibrant community of worship, an ancient abbey, an archaeological treasure, a…
It is an under-reported fact that the 2001 Baz Luhrman jukebox musical Moulin Rouge is an adaptation of 1853 Verdi…
Director Jan Philipp Gloger presents one of Verdi’s lesser performed works which contains the usual emotional and dramatic power, creating…
It has been some thirty years since there was a new production of this opera at the Met and twenty…
Ellen Kent’s production of this much-loved opera is aided by its sumptuous set and costume design as it relishes its…
The rainbow-striped curtain rises on Opera North’s sustainable take on Verdi’s final masterpiece, a comic opera drawn from Shakespeare in…
Director Bárbara Lluch’s current revival of Richard Eyre’s 1994 production delivers a truly musical feast that not only embraces and…
The Met Opera’s original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty is in fact an…
Verdi wrote Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) – with libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano – hot on the heels of…