Verdi

RNZ's award-winning recording of Verdi's Otello, including video, from the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in association with New Zealand Opera. Audio

Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss what it was about Shakespearean forms that so inspired Verdi. Audio

This grandest of grand operas features an epic backdrop for what is in essence an intimate love story. Video

Verdi’s last opera is a splendid finale to an unparalleled career in the theatre. Video

Launched in 1931, the Met's matinée broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical series in American radio history. The 2018-2019 season marks the 88th year of live Saturday broadcasts… Video

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel makes his Met debut leading Verdi’s towering Shakespearean masterpiece.

Verdi’s La Traviata survived a notoriously unsuccessful opening night to become one of the best-loved operas in the repertoire. Video

The unhappy plights of the melancholy hunchback Rigoletto, the ill-fated Gilda and the debonair but ruthless Duke of Mantua unfold in Verdi’s glorious melodies

Verdi's opera is based on Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.

This intense opera is inspired by the real-life assassination of King Gustavus of Sweden in 1792.

Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Deborah Humble (mezzo), Diego Torre (tenor), James Clayton (bass), Orpheus Choir, Orchestra Wellington conducted by Marc Taddei Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Opera in Concert", recorded Auckland Town Hall, 20 July 2018 Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Opera in Concert", recorded Auckland Town Hall, 20 July 2018 Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Opera in Concert", recorded Auckland Town Hall, 20 July 2018 Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Opera in Concert", recorded Auckland Town Hall, 20 July 2018 Audio

Verdi’s epic opera is also an intimate love story of an Egyptian military hero and a captured Ethiopian princess.

This heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love is a rarely performed gem from Verdi’s early period. Video

An opera in four acts with libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare’s Othello

An opera in four acts, based on the play 'El Trovador' by Antonio García Gutiérrez Video

Premièred in the Cairo Opera House in 1871, this tragic love story is set in the time of the pharaohs when Egypt was at war with Ethiopia Video