Giuseppe Verdi

Never mere entertainment, Giuseppe Verdi’s operas evoke the depths of human feelings.

The Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” updates the action to 1960 Las Vegas, and the Duke is a Sinatra-style nightclub singer.

Verdi’s librettist Antonio Somma based his script on an actual assassination at a masked ball.

The Last Night of the Proms has been a yearly fixture on the British musical calendar since 1895 and is embraced by music lovers the world over.

Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Opening Night. To officially open the annual Mostly Mozart Festival, the festival’s orchestra fittingly performs an all-Mozart program that includes “Overture to La Clemenza di Tito”