As the birthplace of opera, Italy is home to many of the world's most famous opera houses. In fact, at least one opera house can be found in most every substantial city in the country, many of which ...

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life ...

MILAN, Italy - Opera is as fundamental to Italy's soul as the Colosseum, Michelangelo or pasta. To attend an opera performance here in the summer is a quintessential Italian experience - especially if ...

"The public is informed that it has been necessary to cancel Il Trittico of Puccini in October and Lucia di Lammermoor of Donizetti in November," reads the brief web announcement. It's not just any ...

Last month, staff at Catania's opera house staged a funeral in suitably operatic fashion, carrying a coffin through the center of the packed auditorium. The performance wasn't a dramatic staging idea: ...

The world of opera is to spring back to life in Italy, its spiritual home, with Rome’s Opera House planning to stage an outdoor performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto in July. More than 30,000 people have ...

No barber schemed in Turin; Butterfly stayed alive in Trieste; and Carmen remained chaste in Bologna. Opera houses across Italy are canceling performances because of sputtering strikes over efforts by ...

Viking hats, a fat lady and a stage — all of these are commonly associated with the opera. But you won’t find any of these at Trattoria Sorrento’s monthly opera nights. "I’m not a fat lady in horns.

Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni’s loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his grounds for ...