Overall, Mayer's transfer of Verdi's first great middle-period opera from 16th-century Mantua to a 1960 hotel and casino on the Strip resulted in straightforward storytelling.
" There will be new-to-the-Met productions of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin, " Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" and Verdi's "Falstaff' that already have debuted in Europe.
Schiller (and doctored history) are also the basis of Verdi's "Don Carlos, " but Verdi and his librettists took a much deeper look at the intersection of love, power and politics than Donizetti did.
Damrau's triumph, coming on the heels of her splendid Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto" last month, solidifies her position as one of the Met's most important stars.
But in Verdi's day, fiery romances at the opera often didn't turn out so well.
His plays, like Verdi's profoundest operas, blend history and national myth, statecraft and love.
In 1851, the first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was given in Venice.
But Elzy was preparing the role of Verdi's Ethiopian princess Aida, when in 1943, she had to have surgery.
He has sung twice at the Met, most recently last fall as Cassio in Verdi's "Otello" with Renee Fleming.
This summer he will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata" for his debut in Santa Fe, N.
If contemporary opera is to begin to thrive, it needs first of all the full theatres which were Verdi's criterion for success.
"I Lombardi, " Verdi's fourth opera, is set during the First Crusade.
Invited back the following year to perform the role of the heroine Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata, " she met Ms. Clayton, who was playing Violetta's best friend, Flora, in the production.
Inside, arias from Verdi's "Otello" played as four monitors showed staged performances of the opera in reverse order -- from the death scene finale to the first encounter between the opera's ill-fated couple.
It was a run through of Verdi's Requiem.
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But on Monday night, he makes his highest-profile New York appearance yet, singing the role of Oronte in Verdi's "I Lombardi" in concert with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
Levine, sidelined since May 2011, will lead revivals of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" starting Sept. 24 and Berg's "Wozzeck" beginning March 6, the company said Tuesday, and a new-to-the-Met staging of Verdi's "Falstaff" (Dec. 6) that appeared at London's Royal Opera in 2012 and Milan's Teatro alla Scala this year.
But, in the setting, it was hard to listen to Verdi, the composer of Italy's Risorgimento, without thinking of English and Scottish politics.
"I was honest about the work we do--that it's strong stuff, " says Verdi, 44.
Now, with a diet of soaps, pop music and quiz shows pouring out on Mr Berlusconi's TV channels, Italy's great opera composers of the 19th and 20th centuries Verdi and Puccini are no longer flavour of the month.
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Time was when the festival's glittering opening night almost invariably meant staple fare by, say, Mozart, Verdi or Richard Strauss.
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