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Often described as Verdi’s greatest “opera” never staged, the Requiem was composed in memory of the writer Alessandro Manzoni. It fuses the dramatic intensity of Verdi’s operas with the gravity of ...

As we approach the end of the 2025-26 season of the Spokane Symphony, the orchestra’s conductor and music director, James ...

On April 21, Benjamin Bernheim makes his return to New York City. The famed tenor, who last performed in the Big Apple in the September production of "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," will take to the stage at ...

A requiem mass is one of the hallmarks of many great composers, perhaps none as much as Giuseppe Verdi for its dramatic content and scale, Daniel Hege says. “Really, Verdi’s approach on this was less ...