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Set against the frantic backdrop of the French Revolution, Respighi's Marie Victoire was slated for a 1915 premiere, but it never happened. Like his popular Pines of Rome, Respighi uses the orchestra like a jumbo box of crayons to create an explosion of color.

Rossini's tragic retelling of Shakespeare's classic seldom gets its due in today's theaters. Otello may have been eclipsed not just by Verdi's version of the story decades later, but also by two of Rossini's own works which premiered about the same time: The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola.

Women are wealthier, more powerful and more independent than ever. In What Women Want, Paco Underhill explains that smart businesses are adapting to accommodate women -- a group that makes up more than half of their customers, in many cases.

The Muslim world remains angry about remarks from Pope Benedict XVI. The pontiff quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who disparaged the prophet Muhammad. The Vatican says the pope is upset at the reaction.

From convenience stores to online, the tablet "will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says.

Giuseppe Verdi specialized in emotional relationships between fathers and their daughters, and one of the most poignant examples is found in his somber, psychological drama Simon Boccanegra.

Tchaikovsky is famous for dark, brooding symphonies, and of all his operas, only one is a comedy. Yet his fanciful score The Tsarina's Slippers is surely among the most charming of all Russian comic operas.

It's hard to say who wrote the very first opera, but there's little doubt about the first, truly great one — it's Monteverdi's 1607 masterpiece, Orfeo, and it comes to World of Opera from a truly great opera house, Milan's La Scala.

Tchaikovsky felt the story of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin so deeply that it led him into a doomed marriage — and to write what may be the most popular Russian opera of all time.

Massenet's Werther is thrilling, tuneful and one of the saddest operas ever composed, ending with a suicide on Christmas Eve. Tenor Giuseppe Filianoti stars in the title role, in performance from Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice.

Stock markets in Asia took a big hit Tuesday after Wall Street's 504-point drop on Monday. Most Asian markets were closed Monday for a holiday, so Tuesday was the first time investors reacted to the news of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch being bought by Bank of America.

Wagner's stormy one-acter requires lead singers with great power, both dramatically and vocally. Alan Held and Jennifer Wilson fit the bill in this turbulent opera focused on one of Wagner's favorite themes: the redemptive power of love. From the Washington National Opera.

When the powerful Hercules falls in love with his future daughter-in-law — whose father he has just murdered — he finds himself caught between dueling goddesses and besieged by the ghosts of his former victims.

The New York Stock Exchange, the historic icon of American capitalism, is in advanced talks to be acquired by the German exchange. If the deal gets done, the combined company would be the world's largest financial exchange.

Plenty of operas dwell on fate, but few do it so dramatically as Giuseppe Verdi's La Forza del Destino — The Force of Destiny.

Donizetti's semi-historical drama brings life to rumors that were already spreading back in the 1500s: that the so-called "Virgin Queen" actually had a secret and passionate love life.

Robert Graves once said, "There's no money in poetry." But Brooklyn-based poet Timothy Donnelly might disagree.

Charlotte-based Albemarle Corp. is taking steps to make its planned lithium mine in Kings Mountain climate-friendly. The company announced a deal Wednesday to supply Caterpillar with lithium for electric vehicles. Caterpillar will provide battery-powered mining equipment to Albemarle.

The surprise development follows Altman's abrupt ouster from OpenAI by its board of directors over an apparent rift over balancing AI safety with the push to publicly release new powerful AI tools.

Between January 2020 and August 2022, a Charlotte woman created nearly 400 fake Social Security cards, eight driver’s licenses and six COVID-19 vaccine cards and earned over $320,000 from the scheme, prosecutors said.