The Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY said "Bon anniversaire, Joseph Vert"--that's "Happy Birthday, Giuseppe Verdi" in French--on Saturday night, with a performance of LES VEPRES SICILIENNES, celebrating the composer's bicentenary. It offered a fine opportunity to hear an opera that followed the composer's "big three" middle works--RIGOLETTO, IL TROVATORE and LA TRAVIATA--but hasn't really found a place in the modern …
SOURCE: opera.broadwayworld.com at 08:44PM on July 9, 2013