Opera doesn't always translate happily to the movies or television. For proof look no further than the 1953 film version of Verdi's "Aida" (Qualiton DVD-616). Except as an artifact of grade-D postwar ...
Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.
A critic whose love of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi goes back nearly 60 years traveled to northern Italy to visit the places that shaped the man and his music. Giuseppe Verdi in the garden of his home ...