This tired songfest starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga does nothing to enhance the master composer's reputation.

Now, in opera’s relentless campaign to resurrect the least-known works of the best-known composers, some of Verdi’s early operas are being given a fresh hearing—with unpredictable results.

Praised by both Chopin and Goethe himself, the first Faust opera was not written by one of the author’s German composer peers. In fact, a Polish duke called Antoni Radziwiłł was the one brave enough ...

Like the great German composer, the Italian opera genius also came from a respected dynasty of church musicians. From the early 18th century onwards, the Puccinis shaped the cultural life of Lucca ...

The history of this early opera house was rife with drama from ... inscribed with the names of six composers: Beethoven, Gluck, Gounod, Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner. The famous gold damask stage ...

Early operas tell the story of Greek drama and were sung in Italian. Italian dominated the musical form until the 18th Century. By this time composers across Europe, such as Henry Purcell ...