Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe Verdi. He is, after all, the only person to have conducted every work that ...

The Lyric Opera’s first production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller in over three decades was truly a memorable occasion. Having a standby singer in a performance, while uncommon, is not rare. But, having two ...

Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” contains one of Italian opera’s greatest tenor arias, a heart-wrenching moment of loss and betrayal in the second act, when the hero is deceived into believing that his beloved ...