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 ...

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 ...

The original libretto for Stiffelio dechaina relentlessly censorship for several reasons: the Italian society of the 19th century and its political, deeply Catholic, authorities were not ready to see ...

Stiffelio‘s power to provoke has gone, but its power to move has not. And the principle themes of Verdi’s once-controversial, now hardly known drama (those of love, betrayal and redemption) are made ...

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 ...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metropolitan Opera production conducted by James Levine and starring Plácido Domingo as the cuckolded ...