Composer

For more than a thousand years, composers have set the Latin mass for the dead, the requiem, to music. But Verdi’s version, first performed in 1874, is unparalleled in its moving reflection on faith, doubt, grief, and redemption.

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Luisi & Verdi's Requiem

DR Koncerthuset

This is more than a concert. Verdi’s Requiem is a powerful spiritual journey that confronts life’s deepest questions of life and death. It moves from dramatic bursts of fear at the coming Judgment Day to intimate, whispered prayers for a place in the eternal light.

Verdi: Requiem

Malmo Live Concert AB

A Night at the Opera returns to Cadogan Hall with a spectacular programme of operatic favourites. Featuring four outstanding soloists – soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone – the evening brings together some of opera’s greatest showstoppers, including the irresistible ‘Largo al factotum’ from The Barber of Seville, the triumphant ‘Toreador Song’ from Carmen, and celebrated ensemble highlights such as Mozart’s serene trio ‘Soave sia il vento’ from Così fan tutte and Verdi’s dramatic quartet ‘Bella figlia dell’amore’ from Rigoletto.

A Night at the Opera by Candlelight

Cadogan Hall

Iago, a scheming, malicious ensign of Otello's, wants to destroy him. And he actually succeeds in doing so in a clever way: he is able to gradually convince Otello that his idol Desdemona is cheating on him. It is only after Otello has murdered his wife in a fit of hatred and jealousy that he realizes her innocence. Full of remorse, Otello stabs himself and, dying, bids farewell to his beloved dead wife with a kiss.

Otello

Vienna State Opera

Teo is having some trouble with his La Scala report card: he just can’t seem to understand opera! What he needs is an artificial intelligence… a robot capable of showing him a different perspective on music. But watch out for those notes!

Mimì & Teo and… The Jazz Robot!

Teatro alla Scala

Macbeth (Verdi)

Stony Brook University

Mad Scenes

Piedmont Center for the Arts

In the intimate setting of the Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen, the musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra welcome you for a programme of chamber music.

Méditerranée

Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen

The young Verdi

San Carlo Theatre

Experience the gripping tale of Rigoletto in an illuminating concert performance that puts Verdi’s masterful score center stage. The music erupts in vivid color as the orchestra and cast bring its passion, heartbreak, and high drama to life. This is Rigoletto unveiled—bold, immediate, and unforgettable.

Rigoletto In Concert

Cannon Center For The Performing Arts

Rigoletto

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

Making jokes is what Rigoletto does for a living, serving as court jester to the predatory Duke of Mantua. But the joke may be on him when one of his jests enrages Count Monterone, the father of the Duke’s latest victim, unleashing a curse with dangerous consequences for Rigoletto and his beautiful daughter Gilda.

San Diego Civic Theatre

One of the most charismatic stars in opera today, Juan Diego Flórez has captivated audiences at The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House, and beyond. Renowned for his breathtaking bel canto artistry, the Peruvian tenor is also the founder of Sinfonía por el Perú, a transformative initiative bringing music to underprivileged youth. Flórez’s highly anticipated Hong Kong debut offers a rare opportunity to experience this world-class vocal powerhouse in arias by Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Verdi, among others. A truly unmissable event for all music lovers.

Rolex Proudly Presents: Juan Diego Flórez Opera Gala

Hong Kong Cultural Centre

I'll tell you about the opera - Rigoletto

Rigoletto exists on the margins of a world owned by the privileged few – and is despised by them for his difference. Twisted inside by the life he has been forced to lead, the only thing he lives for is his daughter, Gilda, of whom he is obsessively protective. When a combination of bitterness and bravura gets the better of him, the consequences for his most precious possession are fatal.

This bold, award-winning production by leading UK theatre artist Femi Elufowoju Jr is opera at its most gripping: a thrilling tale of power, love and revenge that includes one of opera’s most famous aria, ‘La donna è mobile’.

Leeds Grand Theatre

Women's Choir in the Foyer

Verdi’s Il trovatore blazes with passion, vengeance, and the unstoppable force of fate. At its heart is a search for identity, as each character struggles to confront who they truly are, and the secrets that define them. Adding to this is also a fierce love triangle, Leonora: the noblewoman seeking love and the lengths she will go for it; Manrico, the troubadour raised by the mysterious Azucena; and Count di Luna, leader of the military force, consumed by obsession and revenge against Azucena and Manrico. As past secrets collide with present rivalries, Verdi’s electrifying music drives the drama forward with soaring arias, stirring choruses, and unrelenting intensity. In the shadow of 15th Century Spain, political machinations, true love, revenge, and obsession come full force. Known by opera lovers and newcomers alike through the Act II “Anvil Chorus”, Il trovatore is a true modern grand opera, full of political intrigue, mistaken identity, love, revenge, obsession, and onstage battles! A co-production with Vancouver Opera.

Il trovatore

Royal Theatre

She lives fast, loves freely, and throws a better party than anyone in Paris. But beneath the champagne and charm, Violetta knows her days in the spotlight won’t last forever. When she dares to trade pleasure for true love, society—and Alfredo’s very proper family—are quick to remind her just how unforgiving Paris can be.

Verdi’s La Traviata is all romance, sacrifice, and a story where “happily ever after” takes a hard pass.

Florentine Opera: La Traviata

Marcus Performing Arts Center

La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is one of the most prolific operatic composers in music history. His Messa da Requiem is a Catholic funeral mass with an operatic flair. Verdi wrote the piece in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian humanist writer who promoted the ideology of “Risorgimento,” the unification of Italy. The requiem combines dramatic emotion with liturgical introspection, reflecting on the spiritual journey of life, death, and redemption. It celebrates the realization of idealistic humanism and nationalism through the 1870 unification of Italy, while contending with the pain points of a young nation. The instrumentation calls for four vocal soloists, a large chorale, and an orchestra. Verdi’s critics felt the requiem was too operatic to be performed in churches, and Verdi chose to defy cultural norms at the time by writing for female soloists. Nevertheless, the piece is considered to be the most performed choral work composed after the works of Mozart.

The Verdi Requiem

Buddy Holly Hall

Access to the Sala Onu will be via the stairway located in the reception area/artists' entrance (Via Pignatelli Aragona side).

Invitation to listen - Rigoletto

Falstaff

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie tours the Occitanie region in various formations.

Bassoon Quartet

Salle Ferdinand Buisson

Sharp-witted court jester Rigoletto is the philandering Duke’s right-hand man, always quick to defend his patron’s womanizing and mock his master’s victims. But the joke is on him.

Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

On World Animal Day, our heroes will embark on a journey through some of the most beautiful and famous works in the operatic world… and who knows, the sound of a horn might just take them to other places as well.

Mimì & Teo and… The Magic Horn

With La forza del destino, Verdi broke new ground in the 1860s. The title itself refers to this paradigm shift, as it does not refer to the name of a character or a historical event, but rather evokes the universal concept of the «power of fate». Accordingly, the composer wrote a four-act opera that is a drama of ideas, dealing with the fate of entire social classes and peoples. Building on this, director Frank Castorf creates connections to the Spanish Civil War of the 20th century and the fight against fascism in the Second World War, weaving the individual fates of the characters with the horrors of colonial history. In this production by the veteran enfant terrible of the Berlin theatre scene, the «triangle of fate» is embodied this time by an internationally sought-after trio consisting of Guanqun Yu (Leonora) and the two house debutants Luciano Ganci (Don Alvaro) and Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlos). Massimo Zannetti, a frequent guest at the Berlin State Opera in the past, makes his debut at the Deutsche Oper with this revival.

La forza del destino

Deutsche Oper Berlin

As the court jester to the Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto is no less scrupulous than his absolutist master, who seduces women at will and has men killed on a whim. Rigoletto seeks to protect his daughter Gilda from this world, but the Duke has already set his sights on the innocent young woman. When Gilda gives herself to the seducer driven by love and idealism, Rigoletto's carefully constructed wall of protection collapses, and he himself is made a fool: his belief that he could strictly separate the corruption of court society from his private happiness proves to be a fatal illusion.

Cologne Opera

Anita Rachvelishvili

Verdi said that for his new opera he was looking for a subject depicting "people of special characters as bearers of courageous and varied deeds." He found it in García Gutiérrez's successful drama set in 15th-century Spain. Verdi set this chivalric drama full of twists and turns and compelling denouements to music with typical romantic emotion, and it definitely does not lack magnificent melodies.

The Troubadour

Theater of JK Tyl New Stage

Love, Fate and Fire

C.K. McClatchy High School

Macbeth, army commander in the service of King Duncan, is prophesied by three witches that he himself will become king. But the price is high,and his bloody path of self-destruction soon begins. Urged on by the ambitious Lady Macbeth, he commits murder and treason to secure his power. But his actions catch up with him when he is forced to face off against his adversary Macduff and an insurgent army. The tragedy reaches its climax in a devastating battle that seals Macbeth's downfall and makes Malcolm, the murdered king's son, the new king of Scotland.

Macbeth

The season opens with hair-raising drama and spectacular singing as two of opera’s most extraordinary artists star in Macbeth, Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Following past triumphs in many of Verdi’s signature baritone roles, Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, opposite Lise Davidsen—the world’s reigning dramatic soprano—as the power-mad Lady Macbeth, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for a penetrating production by Louisa Proske, a brilliant young director making waves around the world. Rounding out the all-star cast are tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the heroic Macduff and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Macbeth’s friend-turned-victim Banquo.

Lincoln Center

A blessing and a challenge in the programming of every major opera house, La traviata holds a special place in La Scala’s history, marked by the legendary 1953 production conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, directed by Luchino Visconti, and starring Maria Callas. That iconic interpretation seemed untouchable until 1990, when Riccardo Muti commissioned a new, lavish production from director Liliana Cavani, with sets by Dante Ferretti and costumes by Gabriella Pescucci, featuring an all-young cast. This evocative and poetic staging returns to the stage in 2026, conducted by Michele Gamba, who in recent years has led major productions at La Scala including Rigoletto, Médée, Turandot, and Tosca. The cast is unmissable: alongside the charismatic Nadine Sierra in the title role, Piero Pretti and Iván Ayón Rivas alternate as Alfredo, with Boris Pinkhasovich and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Giorgio Germont

La traviata

The Live Arts Toledo season begins with a grand celebration of Italian music as the Toledo Symphony takes The Peristyle stage. Verdi's Overture to La forza del destino launches the evening in a burst of dramatic energy. Acclaimed baritone Sidney Outlaw then takes center stage in a selection of beloved Italian opera arias and expressive art songs, showcasing the passion, drama, and lyrical beauty of Italy's rich vocal tradition. Respighi's Pines of Rome closes the night with a sonic spectacle, building from distant echoes to the triumphant march of Roman legions returning along the Appian Way, a finale where the orchestra's immense forces fill the hall and move through the audience, the kind of moment that makes live arts so powerful.

Pines of Rome

Toledo Museum of Art

He accepts the chance to lead the Republic of Genoa with the hope of uniting his family. But on the very day Simon Boccanegra is elected doge, tragedy strikes—his beloved dies, and his infant daughter vanishes. Now, 25 years later, Boccanegra is a seasoned leader balancing opposing political factions. As he works to bring stability to a fractured republic, fate gives him one more chance at the family reunion he’s longed to secure. 

Simon Boccanegra is both an intimate story of love, loss, and reconciliation, and a larger political allegory for a divided Italy aching for unity. For Verdi, peace can only be achieved when broken bonds are mended—whether between father and daughter, or rival factions of a splintered nation. 

Music Director Eun Sun Kim returns to her exploration of Verdi with this powerful score, filled with some of the most stirring music he ever composed.

Simon Boccanegra

War Memorial Opera House

The Maestro’s immortal emotion in the heart of Palermo
When ‘Va’, pensiero’ begins, something magical happens in the auditorium: everyone holds their breath and emotion takes hold, as powerful as ever even after almost two centuries. A special evening event to mark the 125th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s death, featuring his most beloved and iconic arias and choruses.

A Night at the Opera

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

Nadine Sierra, hailed by the Guardian for her ‘vocally breathtaking’, ‘sensationally good’ Lucia at the Royal Opera House in 2024, opens Wigmore Hall’s Season with a delightful musical voyage that begins in the dazzling world of Belle Époque Paris, where seductive melodies enchanted opera and salon audiences alike. The American lyric coloratura soprano then turns her captivating blend of vocal beauty and agility, musical artistry and charismatic stage presence to works infused with Latin passion and soul.

Nadine Sierra soprano; Bryan Wagorn piano

Wigmore Hall

When the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi decided in 1853 to make a courtesan the heroine of an opera, it was more than unusual; indeed, it was scandalous. Verdi was inspired to create his opera La traviata by the true life story of Marie Duplessis, who had died only a few years earlier – a story immortalized by Alexandre Dumas the Younger in his novel The Lady of the Camellias . Like Dumas, however, Verdi is not concerned with depicting reality, but rather with telling a story, exploring the tightrope walk between fate and self-determination. 

City Theatre, Bern

Aida

One of Italy’s greatest composers embraces one of Shakespeare’s most iconic tragedies. Dark, blood-soaked and unrelenting – and essential viewing for any opera lover.

The Royal Danish Playhouse

After meeting for the first time, the two are in love. Surprisingly, the Spanish King Philip II announces that he wants to marry Elisabeth himself. Elisabeth complies for reasons of state. The liberal Marquis Posa advises his desperate friend Don Carlo to become politically active for a better future for Flanders. However, this puts Don Carlo and Posa in dangerous opposition to the overpowering Grand Inquisitor.

Don Carlo

The opera Nabucco, depicting the dramatic story of the subjugation of the Israelites by the King of Babylon, ranks among Guiseppe Verdi’s most celebrated works. Phenomenal chorus scenes, extremely impassioned virtuoso arias, as well as the perennially topical themes of expansive war, lust for power, betrayal, life and death, are the reasons why it has always been a staple of opera houses’ repertoire.

Nabucco

State Opera

Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata, to the libretto based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel La Dame aux camélias, about Marie Duplessis, the famous courtesan and idol of Parisian society in the 1840s, is actually the very first major opera treating a contemporary social theme. The work’s premiere in 1863 in Venice was a flop: the audience was appalled that the lead role had been assigned to a courtesan who, what’s more, was portrayed in a positive light. Yet Verdi’s opera soon started garnering plaudits and is now one of the most popular repertoire titles the world over.

The Royal Swedish Opera's traditional participation in Parkteatern's annual program: every summer cultural experiences are offered on outdoor stages around Stockholm - completely free.

The Opera in the park

Vitabergsparken

Zurich Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s stunning opera, A Masked Ball, filled with desire, treachery and political peril.

Verdi’s A Masked Ball

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Concert in the Wallenstein Garden

Waldstein Garden

A dramatic and terrifying requiem juxtaposed by a beautiful gloria dedicated to all the heroes of Ukraine, performed in the iconic St Paul's Cathedral, a symbol of shining resilience.

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Verdi Requiem

St. Paul's Cathedral London

Hot off the plane from their annual Festival in Tuscany, Sinfonia Smith Square brings a taste of Italy to their home at Smith Square Hall with a whistle-stop tour of some much-loved Italian music. Grab some gelato and be transported to an Italian piazza.

Sinfonia Smith Square’s Guide to Italy

Smith Square Hall

Verdi’s electrifying Requiem—with its blazing choruses, dramatic operatic solos, and powerful orchestra—marks the return of our One City Choir, in partnership with Cantata Singers, led by Noah Horn. Randall Thompson’s The Testament of Freedom, with texts of Thomas Jefferson, continues our celebration of America 250.

Verdi Requiem

Hatch Memorial Shell

Following his triumphs with Aida and Tristan und Isolde, Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings us another grand Verdi opera this summer, blending tragic love, political intrigue, and a dark, fantastical atmosphere. Accompanied by the Orchestre Métropolitain and an exceptional vocal cast, Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings the 49th Festival de Lanaudière to a close, just weeks before inaugurating a new production of Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera.

Macbeth by Nézet-Séguin

Festival de Lanaudière

When Courtesan Violetta and nobleman Alfredo meet, it does not take them long to give in to love. Their whirlwind romance takes them from the bustling social salons of Paris into the quiet French countryside. She leaves a life of luster and riches behind. He angers his father by living in sin with an impure woman. After a visit by Alfredos father, Violetta realizes, that them being together is destroying Alfredo’s life and his family’s reputation. She returns to her former life and is confronted by an angry Alfredo, who thinks she has used him. Some time passes by, and Violetta is on her deathbed. Tuberculosis has struck her down. Poor and alone, she awaits death. When Alfredo learns the reason why Violetta left him and that she is dying, he comes to her. They plan to leave Paris, but there is no time left.

After Alexandre Dumas’ The Lady of the Camellias Verdi composed an opera full of undying melodies, beginning with the famous drinking song “Libiamo ne ‘liete calici” via Violettas heart-wrenching aria “Estrano…Af fors’e lui” to Violetta and Alfredo’s hopeful, yet sad Duetto “Parigi, o cara”. It is no wonder, that La Traviata is one of the most played operas.

Olavinlinna

At the Duke’s infamous parties, one man’s words light the darkness with a sinister glitter. Among the glamorous girls and greasy gangsters, Rigoletto serves his master with sharp wits and averted eyes.

Sydney Opera House

Chiaroscuro meets Busby Berkeley meets Boris Karloff in a staging designed by takis, lit by Simon Corder and choreographed by Steve Elias. Close cousin to Gaitanou’s much loved production of La traviata (2018, 2021, 2024) in its theatrical exuberance and psychological sensitivity, Un ballo in maschera was hailed in The Independent as “a triumphant meld of lighting, design and choreography” and The Spectator as “musically exemplary”, with particular praise across the press for the work of the Opera Holland Park Chorus.

Un ballo in maschera

Opera Holland Park

An evening of "Opera's Greatest Hits" performed by the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singers at the Santa Fe Railyard summer concert series. Free concert.

Opera at the Railyard

Santa Fe Railyard Plaza

The Perelada Festival inaugurates its summer edition with the presence of an exceptional couple formed by two of the most outstanding voices on the current opera scene: the soprano Ermonela Jaho and the tenor Benjamin Bernheim, accompanied on the piano by Marcos Madrigal.

Benjamin Bernheim & Ermonela Jaho

Church of Carmel

Kaufmann / Tézier

Step into the glittering world of nineteenth century Paris as one of opera's most unforgettable love stories takes centre stage. La traviata is Verdi at full brilliance, weaving a tale that shimmers with glamour, passion, and heartbreak. At its heart is Violetta, a woman adored by society yet living a life defined by fragility and compromise. When the earnest and hopeful Alfredo enters her world, she dares to imagine a future shaped by love rather than expectation. Their romance is intoxicating, but the world they inhabit is quick to judge, and their happiness comes under threat from the very forces they long to escape.

Buxton Opera House

Garsington Opera is the Philharmonia’s summer home. We spend our summers in the stunning Wormsley Estate, set in the natural beauty of the Chiltern Hills, performing operas that are of the highest artistic quality. The experience of Garsington is not just the outstanding performances – which have become some of the best this country has to offer – but the exquisite experience of country house opera at its finest. As a Philharmonia Patron recently said, at Garsington, you just know that everything is going to be done right.

Philharmonia Patrons trip to La traviata at Garsington Opera

Wormsley

Internationally-acclaimed soprano Sonya Yoncheva joins pianist Malcolm Martineau for a radiant evening of Italian and Spanish song. From Puccini’s lyrical gems to Verdi’s intimate miniatures and Albéniz’s sultry Tango, this programme reveals Yoncheva’s expressive depth in repertoire that spans operatic passion and poetic introspection.

Sonya Yoncheva soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Babylonian king Nabucco invades and robs the Jewish population, subjecting them to slavery and forced labour. Power intoxicates and deludes him. It makes the king play god. Meanwhile, the bitter Abigaille, one of the strongest female roles in the operatic repertoire, awaits her own moment of revenge and plots against the young lovers Ismaele and Fenena.

This stellar festival gala concert will welcome one of the greatest figures on the contemporary opera scene. Bryn Terfel, an operatic legend with the charisma of a world star, will perform a programme that transcends the boundaries of genres and styles. He will be joined by Slovak soprano Slávka Zámečníková. The evening will feature famous opera arias, musical theatre melodies and distinctive Welsh songs, promising an exceptional experience full of emotion and vocal virtuosity.

Opera Gala – Bryn Terfel & Slávka Zámečníková

Litomyšl Castle

The first Shakespeare play the composer adapted, Verdi calling the tragedy "one of the greatest creations of man". Our first production of this masterpiece is directed by award-winning director Karolina Sofulak and conducted by rising star Nil Venditti, who made her BBC Proms debut in 2024 and is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Longborough Festival Opera

Chamber Concert “Italia and Germania”

Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Munich Residence

“A Night at the Opera” brings the grand tradition of European opera into our American Adventures season, celebrating the larger-than-life drama, romance, and spectacle that have captivated audiences for centuries. This performance will showcase highlights of the work in concert format, featuring the Summit Choral Society alongside soloists selected from Central City Opera’s prestigious Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Young Artists Training Program. Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute sets the stage with brilliance and mystery, its noble chords and quicksilver passages opening the door to a world of fantasy. From Rossini’s swaggering “Largo al factotum” to Bizet’s sultry “Habanera,” from the thunder of Verdi’s Anvil Chorus to the soaring triumph of “Nessun dorma,” this program unfolds as a gallery of unforgettable moments—choruses, duets, and overtures that showcase opera’s full emotional range, from intimate confession to exhilarating spectacle. 

Riverwalk Center

Viva Italia! In their season finale concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko transform the Waldbühne into a slice of Italy. Start tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who has sung his way to the top of the global opera scene, performs some of the most beautiful arias from Italian operas, allowing us to dream of the South under the Berlin stars. With Respighi’s evocative tone poems Pini di Roma and Fontane di Roma, we walk through the Eternal City – from the pines of the Villa Borghese to the glittering Trevi Fountain.

Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann at the Waldbühne

Waldbühne Berlin

The emotions of ‘Va, pensiero’ as you have never experienced them before. Come and marvel at Nabucco, the choral drama par excellence, in a poetic and visionary production designed by Stefano Poda.

Arena di Verona

Windrush and Migrations Opera in Concert

A powerful evening of opera celebrating journey, resilience and belonging. Featuring Migrations by Todd Wills and Windrush Opera by Des Oliver and Edson Burton, this concert brings to life the stories, memories and voices of migration through moving music and bold storytelling. A perfect way to mark Windrush Day 2026!

Windrush & Migrations

Broadway Theatre Catford

A woman was once burned at the stake for being a witch - an event whose dark shadows extend to present times. A thrilling drama begins to unfold: Azucena, the daughter of the executed woman, swears to avenge her mother's death. In return, she kidnaps one of the sons of the old Count Luna, who is responsible for the execution. In the glistening madness of revenge, however, she no longer recognizes whether she is killing her own child or the son of the despised count. Years later, Azucena's now grown-up son, the titular troubadour Manrico, and the young Count Luna not only face each other in the civil war, they are also rivals for Leonora's love... Giuseppe Verdi stages the emotional extremes of his characters in a gripping and melodic way in this work, which, along with “Rigoletto” and “La traviata”, is part of his 'Trilogia popolare'.

German Oper am Rhein

Radvanovsky/De Tommaso

All opera lovers are invited to a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" on Saturday, June 20, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) in the historic Lindenfels Castle ruins. The Opera Classica Europa ensemble presents one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in music history.

The dramatic plot unfolds in Parisian society in the mid-19th century. The central figure is the terminally ill courtesan Violetta Valéry, who must sacrifice her great love for Alfredo Germont to societal constraints and the prevailing moral standards of the time.

Lindenfels Castle

Eppstein Castle

Espenschied village center

An opportunity to hear Verdi’s great choral masterpiece, as Canterbury Choral Society and its Youth Choir demonstrate their power and expressive range in this dramatic work.

Verdi, the opera composer, combines his operatic roots in the great arias with a sense of universal spaciousness in the choruses of telling splendour. One of the most enduring choral favourites from the 19th century, the Requiem brings together a wide-ranging palette combining all his finest attributes – touching lyricism, luxuriant orchestral colour, and choruses which range from the whispered to earth-shattering fortissimos, stretching soloists and choir alike to extremes.

Canterbury Choral Society present Verdi: Requiem

Canterbury Cathedral

Violetta leads a life of excess: men, money, and alcohol without end, and one party after another. But the young high-class prostitute is terminally ill. At the height of her youth, she, who refuses to believe in love, is overwhelmed by it. Happiness is short-lived, reconciliation comes too late: Violetta ultimately dies impoverished and alone, a martyr of a society that has no place for outsiders.

Detmold Theatre

Better than a summary, the most exquisite distillation of the Maestrissimo Muti's repertoire. Beneath its Italian airs, the first part offers a platform for France. It was for the Paris Opera that Giuseppe Verdi made his palette blaze in the ballet of the Sicilian Vespers , and it was to the Universal Exhibition of 1878 that Alfredo Catalani, author of the immortal Wally , dedicated the caress of his Contemplazione . After the interval, the thunderbolt of Tchaikovsky's Fourth , the conductor's beloved symphony, a force of destiny in its own right, fell.

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 / Riccardo Muti

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Verdi & Liszt

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

"He was your brother... You are avenged, Mother!"
Azucena
When Count Luna and the troubadour Manrico not only find themselves as enemies in a bloody civil war, but also fall in love with the same woman, a fatal tragedy unfolds: Leonora poisons herself, and Manrico is executed by Luna, who then learns that he killed his own brother, believed to be long lost. Manrico had grown up unrecognized by Azucena, who once witnessed the old Count Luna burn her mother at the stake. Deeply traumatized, Azucena swore revenge, kidnapped the count's younger son, and accidentally killed her own child in his place.
With his drama "El Trovador" ( The Troubadour) , Antonio García Gutiérrez wrote the most successful and popular stage work of the Spanish Romantic era in 1836. Giuseppe Verdi was so captivated by this dark romance of love and hate, jealousy and revenge that he used it as the basis for his opera Il Trovatore in 1849/50, without a commission and thus without a guarantee of a premiere . In it, he found the age-old motif of fraternal strife intertwined with the questions of fate, chance, and inner necessity that had always fascinated him. He knew how to carve his characters out of this bizarre story in a highly sophisticated way. His musical imagination was ignited by their contradictions, their imprisonment, and their longings.

Staatstheater Hannover

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Mascoulisse Quartet presents a project entirely dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, approached from a historical and profoundly musical perspective.

Mascoulisse Quartet: PROGETTO VERDIANO - VERDI 1901

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

Wine, women, and good food—life could be so simple. At least, if it were up to Sir John Falstaff, who is always on the lookout for new pleasures. But when the coffers are empty, the hunter becomes careless: Falstaff sends wooing letters to two married women, but makes the tactical error of making the letters identical except for the salutation. He doesn't expect the two women he's courting, Alice Ford and Meg Page, to be friends, which includes a conversation about the unexpected mail. As soon as the women discover the transparent scam, they start plotting to stop the supposed suitor. Especially since they can also use the opportunity to save Alice's daughter Nannetta from being married, at her father's request, to a man Nannetta can't stand. The only thing to watch out for is the jealous stalking of Ford's husband.

Staatstheater Mainz

Experience the thrilling conclusion of the 2025-26 season with a concert performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto, featuring artists famous for bringing their roles to life on international stages. This is the second production of Music Director Jonathon Heyward’s ambitious four-year Verdi Opera Initiative.

Verdi's Rigoletto Conducted by Heyward

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

The world’s most loved and performed opera, Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, will open the 103rd Arena di Verona Opera Festival in a new production which, for the first time in Arena history, will bring one of the French capital’s most iconic institutions to Verona: the Moulin Rouge.

Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces represent the composer's spiritual testament and achieve unprecedented dramatic power – from the poignant lyricism of the Ave Maria to the monumentality of the Te Deum . They will be performed by the Chorus of the Montpellier National Opera, prepared by Noëlle Gény. In counterpoint, Schubert's Symphony No. 5 , composed at the age of 19 in the euphoria of his discovery of Mozart, embodies a vibrant homage to Viennese classicism. Under the sensitive direction of Italian conductor Clelia Cafiero, the strings dialogue with Mozartian transparency, while the woodwinds bring a pastoral hue to this youthful work that adopts romantic harmonic colors. Between fervor and light, an evening where the sacred is by turns intimate and grandiose.

Sacred Pieces

Opéra Comédie

Christmas Eve, 1871. In Cairo’s newly built opera house, the curtain rises on the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. This is a turning point in cultural history, when an occidental passion for exoticism and an oriental interest in European high culture come together to create great art. Very few works of opera have achieved such widespread popularity. And rightly so: with its thrilling musical effects, exotic sounds and tableaux, the colourful instrumentation and monumental scenes alternating with moments of great intimacy, Aida is a true musical and dramatic treasure trove. And that’s not all. Through the tragic love affair between the Ethiopian princess Aida and the Egyptian army commander Radamès, torn between the interests of state, church and family, Giuseppe Verdi reflects on the crisis-ridden plight of the modern individual, ending with a highly moving plea for the utopian power of love.

Semperoper Dresden

Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem is one of the greatest works of choral symphonic literature. The Collegium Musicum of Goethe University Frankfurt will perform this monumental work at the Alte Oper with 400 performers, including partner choirs from Frankfurt, Cologne and Vilnius, as well as international soloists.

Concert of the Goethe University

Alte Oper

Conner Leavitt, tenor

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

He commands a world empire and yet he is deeply unsettled. Philip II of Spain not only fears losing command but also feels betrayed and deserted by his wife Elizabeth von Valois: she and his son Carlo are in love. Over all this hangs the threatening shadow of the Inquisition. In vain, King Philip seeks trust in a hostile world.

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Events

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Aug 29, 2026 - Jan 24, 2027

La traviata · Národní divadlo

Aug 30 - Dec 15, 2026

Nabucco · Národní divadlo

Sep 6, 2026 - Jan 19, 2027

La traviata · Bühnen Bern

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Rigoletto · Oper Köln

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Falstaff · Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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29 - 31 Oct, 2026

Luisi & Verdi's Requiem · Danish National Symphony Orchestra

29 - 30 Oct, 2026

Verdi: Requiem · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

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