Two hundred years ago today, in a small northern Italian village, a couple named Verdi — tavern owners by trade — welcomed the birth of a baby boy who would later change the face of opera forever. And ...
On Saturday, Los Angeles Opera will be giving its first performance ever of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra,” a work that straddles a longer span of time in his extraordinary evolution than any ...
Only in L.A.: Giuseppe Verdi’s 1844 opera “The Two Foscari” meets the CBS game show “The Price Is Right. “ On a recent day backstage at CBS Television City, one wall was dominated by a painting of ...