Opera Colorado is performing the Italian opera, Il Trovatore, in a concert format. The four act classic is shortened to 90-minutes, but still brings all the drama of the original. "You would think ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Opening nights at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House are always festive affairs, filled with anticipation, and Opera Colorado’s opening of Guiseppe Verdi’s “Il ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental and monumentally exciting opera (1853, composed immediately after Rigoletto and before La Traviata) roars into Opera in the Heights and flattens everything else around. It ...

Tenor Brian Vu and mezzo-soprano Anne Maguire in Il Trovatore at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim If you think the art of opera is dying, I turn your attention to Opera in the Heights ...

As the story unfolds in one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, the hero is beheaded at the end. A baby is thrown into a burning fire at the beginning. In between are epic battles between armies.

For the music alone, you can't beat Verdi's "Il Trovatore," with a demanding string of arias that, in the right hands (or voices) can raise the rafters. But when it comes to the action, you must ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Verdi’s melodramatic tale, on a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, tells the grisly and convoluted story of Azucena who claims that ...

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Listen to our quick (and very funny!) overview of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore, which is this week’s Houston Grand Opera broadcast airing on Classical 91.7 Saturday at noon. This week, Classical 91.7 ...