Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...

Andata in scena per la prima volta alla Scala il il 5 febbraio 1887 e composta dopo un lunghissimo periodo di silenzio (la precedente Aida, risaliva al 1871), la penultima opera di Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro ...

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Most people are accustomed to seeing Shakespeare’s plays materialize again and again, whether in a traditional theater setting, such as Lovers and Madmen’s “Macbeth,” which played earlier this month, ...

Otello is the penultimate creation of its composer, who needed prodding to begin the project. The great Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) had gone into retirement after the success ...

Da qui parte il mio viaggio nella 25a edizione del Festival Verdi e nei suoi luoghi, perché questo venticinquesimo anno non è soltanto un cartellone di opere (oggi alle 20 al Regio di Parma l’ultima ...