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 ...

2 Jackie Chan to Make Opera Directing Debut with TURANDOT at Puccini Festival At the time Verdi composed it, Stiffelio was considered to be an opera of scandalous subject matter. He based the opera on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Sex, sects, adultery and divorce: 21st- century soap opera? No, 19th-century grand opera. We like to think we’re ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dynamic tenor José Cura sings the title role of Verdi's rarely performed Stiffelio, the composer's daring opera about faith, jealousy, and redemption. The production, hailed by New York Magazine as ...