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Verdi's Otello War Memorial Opera House Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 Better than: Most professional athletes' returns from retirement Local opera fans may not realize it, but they owe a debt of gratitude to Giulio Ricordi and Arrigo Boito.

Top line: More than 100 voices come together to perform some of the most beautiful and memorable choruses from 11 operas in a night of celebration for the Mississippi Opera.

For anyone wondering what on earth the Overture to Leonard Bernstein's Candide was doing at the start of this bizarre, rag-bag of an evening might I suggest that the inference may have been that "in the best of all possible worlds" Angela Gheorghiu would have been singing more than two arias in the official programme with two more tired old ...

Put on a production of Verdi's "Otello," and all anyone wants to know about is the tenor in the title role.

Actors perform during a dress rehearsal of the San Francisco Opera's upcoming production of Verdi's "Otello" at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif.

Experiencing a worthy performance of a great opera, such as Pittsburgh Opera's recent production of "Falstaff," is as much a matter of excitement as satisfaction.

A weekend for opera fans Local opera lovers, say 'Bravo!' Today you can catch another installment of The Met: Live in HD series.

Victor Hugo is one of the great jewels of French literature. It's sad that, in America at least, he's mostly thought of as the provider of plot lines for the musical Les Miserables and for Verdi operas.

Baritone Marco Vratogna and soprano Zvetelina Vassileva co-star in Verdi's masterpiece opening this Sunday at the War Memorial Opera House By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's masterwork OTELLO , opening Sunday afternoon, November 8th, with six subsequent performances ...

The UL Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Blaney, will present its annual Halloween concert Friday in the Angelle Hall auditorium.

A dramatic performance of Verdi's Otello opened the Dallas Opera's season on Friday night.

Astonishingly, no black tenor has ever sung the role of Otello in a professional British production of Verdi's opera a ' until now.

Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 2:34 p.m. Verdi's "La traviata" is one of the composer's most popular operas, so you might think it would be done more frequently by the Sarasota Opera.

Starting his 26th year with the opera , artistic director Ronald J. Gretz created an exciting and comprehensive program of arias illustrating the astonishing breadth of 19th-century composer Guiseppe Verdi, who wrote 28 operas between 1839 and 1893.

From the techno-fabulous raising of the chandelier that preceded Act 1, to a post-opera buffet-style VIP-only dinner by Wolfgang Puck Catering, the night felt charmed.

By ALAN PEPPARD / / The Dallas Morning News / apeppard@dallasnews.com apeppard@dallasnews.com Though the late Bill Winspear would have loved last week's grand opening at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, he wrote that $42 million check because he was an opera fan who wanted to liberate the Dallas Opera from Fair Park Music Hall.

You really have to admire a company that pushes the boat out in these straitened times.

Arts groups were scrambling Wednesday to assess the impact of this weekend's closing of Woodall Rodgers Freeway on inaugural performances at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. Everyone ends up laughing in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff." One of opera's mere handful of genuinely funny comic operas, it was the improbable farewell to the stage of the master of Italian operatic tragedy.

"If you just read the play late at night you can feel the evil," says east London soprano Beatrice Danesfield as she enthuses about her forthcoming role in English Opera Singers' performance of Verdi's Macbeth later this month.