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International leisure travel from England will resume on May 17, 2021 - with significant conditions still attached. The government has published a traffic-light system of opening up travel: green, amber and red. On the green list: Although twelve territories are on the green list, the following are the main destinations for UK travellers: Gibraltar, Israel, Portugal, and Singapore. Although Australia & New Zealnd feature on the green list, neither country allows arrivals from overseas! On
More >In early March, the Lyric Opera of Chicago made the heartbreaking decision to cancel the first new Ring Cycle in North America for 12 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But, with this extraordinary project almost a decade in the making, the company wanted to share some unique glimpses of this monumental work through videos, interviews, and program articles, while we all wait patiently for better days and a rescheduled season. The planning, design and production of all four operas are explored
More >We challenge you to not to smile at this delightful performance of an Italian favourite!
More >A giant in the world of opera, one of a tiny group of composers who set the supreme standard by which the art of opera is judged. Just consider. Of his 28 operas about a dozen form the backbone of the standard operatic repertoire.
Born in a village in the rural depths of what is now the province of Parma, Verdi received his earliest musical education from church organists in Roncole & Busseto.
He married in 1938, aged 25, and moved to Milan where, in 1839, he completed his first opera, Oberto.
Early personal tragedies followed: his first child, daughter Virginia died in infancy, their second child also. His wife Margherita died in 1840 aged 26.
Devastated and dispirited by these personal losses Verdi found solace in his work and through the 1840s and the 1850s,'60s and '70s he composed Nabucco, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Don Carlos, and Aida, amongst others.
Of course, more great works followed right through until old age [Messsa da Requiem, Otello, Falstaff].
Verdi died on 27 Janaury 1901 in Milano.
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