While some great opera composers thrive on nuance and suggestion, Giuseppe Verdi had a real talent for getting to the heart of the matter. When he turned Shakespeare's Othello into the opera Otello, ...

This month, the Oriana Consort opens its 25th season with a program including a miniature masterpiece that originated as a musical brain-teaser: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Ave Maria,” one of his “Quattro Pezzi ...

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When Verdi set out to make Othello into an opera, he didn't worry about getting Shakespeare absolutely right. Rob Kapilow unveils Verdi's... Verdi's Brilliantly Inauthentic 'Ave Maria' While some ...