Verdi: Aida

Live recording St. Jacob-Park, Basel, June 17th-19th, 2003

Verdi: Luisa Miller

In a Tyrolean village in the first half of the 17th century. Luisa, Miller’s daughter, and Carlo, a young man she met in the village, are deeply in love. When Wurm, a courtier who is also in love with Luisa, asks Miller

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra - Teatro alla Scala

Opera di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano.

Falstaff - Verdi

Addio fottuti musi verdi

Young Ciro Priello, an ultra-skilled Neapolitan graphic, can not find a job that satisfies and appreciates him. After sending the curriculum practically everywhere, he just have to send a copy in space. He will thus be a

Verdi: Macbeth

In early 11th-century Scotland, at Macbeth’s castle. During a storm, in a Scottish wood, witches gather to hatch sinister plots. They hear Macbeth and Banquo approaching—Scottish nobles fighting for their king, Duncan—an

Messa da Requiem (2011)

A requiem inspired by the death, on May 22, 1873, of the Italian poet and writer Alessandro Manzoni, author of the novel “The Betrothal”. Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” (more commonly known as the “Verdi Requiem”)

Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore

Written for exceptional singers, Il Trovatore has remained popular ever since its first performance at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853, when even the toughest critics were convinced of its place in the reper

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

In the 14th century, Genoa was torn apart by strife between the patricians and the plebeians. The sailor Simon Boccanegra and his lover Maria Fiesco bore the brunt of these internal conflicts: Maria’s father was none oth

Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem

This installment in the "Karajan Legacy" series captures the acclaimed conductor leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Sofia National Opera in a masterful performance of Ver

Verdi: I due Foscari

Jacopo, son of Doge Francesco Foscari, was accused of murder and banished from Venice. Longing for his homeland, he writes to the Duke of Milan asking him to intercede with the city council. The letter is intercepted, an

Anni Verdi

The time leading up to a girl's 17th birthday.

Verdi: Alzira

Verdi - Alzira

C Major presents a concert performance of Verdi's opera Alzira. Alzira is based on the play by Voltaire and displays the composer's maturity through glowing lyric moments, and the weaving together of complex emotional an

Verdi: Aroldo - Teatro Municipale di Piacenza

Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work was created in response to the censorship of Verdi’s 1849 Stiffelio, whose tale of a prote

Verdi: Ernani

Opera in four parts by Francesco Maria Piave after Hernani by Victor Hugo Critical edition by Claudio Gallico The University of Chicago Press, Chicago e Casa Ricordi, Milano

Verdi - Stiffelio

Stiffelio was based on the play Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois and was originally censored due to it involving as it does a Protestant minister of the church with an adulter

Casa Verdi

VERDI Falstaff

Falstaff Gabriel Bacquier · Karan Armstrong Richard Stilwell · Max-René Cosotti · John Lanigan Wiener Philharmoniker Georg Solti Directed by Götz Friedrich

Verdi Favorites

A superb collection of favorite operatic moments from the master of opera, Guiseppe Verdi. This compilation features the extraordinary talents of José Carreras, Nicola Martinucci, Kiri Te Kanawa, Vladimir Atlantov and ma