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NEWS ABOUT: Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi stories: 3 news summaries
obituary

Conductor Downes, Wife End Lives in Swiss Suicide Clinic

Couple faced failing health

Jul 14, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - British conductor Edward Downes and his wife, Joan, have died at a Swiss suicide clinic, ending their lives “under circumstances of their own choosing,” the couple’s children said today. Downes, 85, was largely blind and Joan, 74, had cancer, the Times of London reports, which their children... More »

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cancer • classical music • assisted suicide • obituary • blindness • Sydney Opera House • Royal Opera House • conductor • Giuseppe Verdi • Edward Downes • Joan Downes

opera review


 High-Concept 
 Sonnambula 
 Misses at Met 


Mar 23, 09 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most operas weave pretty far-fetched tales, but that isn't license for directors to retell them in ironic or mocking ways, Alex Ross writes in the New Yorker. Reviewing two recent productions at the Met, Ross hails a faithful staging of Verdi's Il Trovatore—but dismisses a high-concept version of Bellini's... More »

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classical music • opera • Metropolitan Opera • Bellini • Giuseppe Verdi

 Verdi, Naked and Anti-American 

Austrian Marxist uses opera to slam US capitalism

Apr 12, 08 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache... More »

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theater • Germany • Marxism • opera • East Germany • anti-Americanism • Erfurt • Johann Kresnik • Giuseppe Verdi

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