Is there a composer who is more adored than Giuseppe Verdi? There are composers who command more respect than Verdi, but no one receives more love. To honor the recent anniversary of Verdi’s passing ...

He enjoyed immense success during his lifetime and, today, his works are the most performed operas around the world. He began composing music at 13, and when asked to step in as a last-minute ...

Two hundred years ago this week, Giuseppe Verdi was born in an Italian town midway between Bologna and Milan. On the occasion of his bicentennial, All Things Considered wanted to know what makes the ...

Verdi’s operas are well known – but what about his work as a member of parliament and fervent supporter of Italian unification? On the eve of the composer’s 200th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill ...

He may be regarded as the greatest Italian opera composer of them all, but Giuseppe Verdi was French by birth. Prior to unification in the 1860s, what is now Italy was a disparate collection of ...

DEAR JERRY: My copy of "A Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria)," by Miguel Rios (A&M 1193), states the song is "Based on the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony." Pop music records using ...

In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: ...