Scene stealer: Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey (far left) in Verdi’s rarely performed opera The Sicilian Vespers - Tristram Kenton Sprawling, flawed, impractical: history has not been kind to Verdi’s ...
LONDON (Reuters) - It took 158 years to get here, but "Les Vepres Siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London this week in a ...
Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers tells the story of the 13th-century uprising of the citizens of Palermo against occupying French forces, culminating in a massacre of the oppressors by the patriots. It still ...
The title of Verdi’s 1855 opera refers to a historical massacre that took place in Sicily in 1282, when the local populace rose against the occupying French forces, slaughtering them in their ...
In March 1282, the French King Charles of Anjou, a protégé of the Pope in Rome, controlled southern Italy and Sicily. On the Vigil of Easter a drunken French sergeant began to bother a young married ...
It took 158 years to get here, but Les Vepres Siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London last week in a production that proved an ...
LONDON (Reuters) - It took 158 years to get here, but "Les Vepres Siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London this week in a ...
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