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VERDI'S La Traviata music is so familiar that the innovative features it incorporates tend nowadays to be overlooked. Perhaps the most significant of them is that the opera's story and characters belong to the time when it was written. Not leas t in ...

A series of small quakes have started rumbling through the Verdi-Mogul area again. The biggest quake we've seen recently is a magnitude 3.1 late Wednesday night. Since then we've seen a lot of activity - seven quakes on Thursday alone with the ...

I went to the opening of Orlando Opera's Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) last Friday. The Verdi music was glorious, the orchestra was great, the chorus was excellent (always the unsung heroes), the singing overall was terrific -- but the acting, not so ...

I went to the opening of Orlando Opera's Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) last Friday. The Verdi music was glorious, the orchestra was great, the chorus was excellent (always the unsung heroes), the singing overall was terrific -- but the acting, not so ...

Franco Farina maintains that the grandeur of the Moorish general is best expressed in Verdi's opera, writes Robin Usher. I T IS rare to have a probing conversation about the complexities of a leading character in classical opera, or to hear the ...