While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

(La) forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny', Movements: Overture Charles Mackerras, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Philharmonia Orchestra Nabucco, Movements: Overture Philharmonia Orchestra ...

La Forza del Destino features some of Verdi's most dramatic music, and the popular overture previews several of the opera's finest moments. Giuseppe Sinopoli leads a recording with the Philharmonic ...

Teatro alla Scala has picked many operas to open a new season, an event of perennial importance on the international classical-music calendar and one of great social prominence as well. Yet when the ...

Giuseppe Verdi was to Italian opera what Beethoven was to the symphony. Of his more than two dozen operas, spanning 54 years from Oberto to Falstaff, none has a more stirring or well-liked overture ...

We begin with a tale of sorcery, epic battles, and love. This opera was inspired by the epic fairy tale poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, where the brave hero Ruslan sets out to rescue his ...