If you put aside for a moment the conventions of early 19th century Italian opera and cut right to the heart of the drama, Verdi's "Ernani" is a tale of desperate passions and betrayals. The beautiful ...

Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky began his third-act aria beautifully, but faltered, along with the rest of the Met’s much-too-understated production of Verdi’s “Ernani.” Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera A ...

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Lyric Opera of Chicago will kick off the cultural season with a bang as Verdi's Ernani takes the Lyric Opera stage, with performances from September 9 to October 1, 2022. Written as Verdi was coming ...

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La ...