It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer. The opera about a ...

Last seen in Sarasota in 2005, Verdi's opera about infidelity and forgiveness, Stiffelio, opens Saturday, March 15. Written just before Rigoletto, this long-neglected, emotionally charged work is now ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. T he Metropolitan Opera’s undeclared mini-festival of Verdi’s two-star dramas—Stiffelio and Simon ...

Although it has no familiar arias and its plot strains credulity, Verdi's "Stiffelio" at the Met Opera is a mesmerizing affair. Somehow, the idea of an evangelical minister who is perfectly ...

As he prepares to start his 43rd year as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi said he is working toward the same goals now that he had at the start of his long tenure. “My goal is ...

Verdi’s “Stiffelio” has an important place in Met history. The opera, cut to ribbons by the censors before its première in Trieste in 1850 (like “La Traviata,” it had a “modern” plot), was given its ...

Giuseppe Verdi's "Stiffelio," which was presented by Washington Concert Opera at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night, has an unusual history. A gloomy meditation on sex, adultery and moral confusion, ...