Read more Giuseppe Verdi stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/29115/giuseppe-verdi.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:05:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/64353/conductor-downes-wife-end-lives-in-swiss-suicide-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish 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 say prompted their...http://www.newser.com/story/64353/conductor-downes-wife-end-lives-in-swiss-suicide-clinic.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Jul 2009 10:18:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54084/high-concept-sonnambula-misses-at-met.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost 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...http://www.newser.com/story/54084/high-concept-sonnambula-misses-at-met.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Mar 2009 14:35:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24174/verdi-naked-and-anti-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 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 saluting the...http://www.newser.com/story/24174/verdi-naked-and-anti-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Apr 2008 6:51:09 CDT