Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Continuing Austin Opera's relationship with Italian Operas, Giuseppe Verdi's ...

OPERA lovers have waited with eager anticipation for the role debut of the highly acclaimed Jonas Kaufmann in Otello, judged to be Verdi’s most demanding tenor part. It requires a rich baritonal ...

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 ...

Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice! This special outdoor “event production” of the Teatro La Fenice ...

From its earliest days, the Hollywood Bowl has thought of itself as a Hollywood-size opera house. And why not? Opera likes all things outsize. Full summer opera seasons in the amphitheater once drew ...

A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum reveals the crucial role Ricordi played in creating these late masterpieces. By Zachary Woolfe The pair of operatic masterpieces that capped Verdi’s ...

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 ...