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 ...

"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 ...

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

Composer Ennio Morricone earned an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, but his only opera gathered dust for decades. On Friday night, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo ...

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 ...

A group of European singers has launched a crowd-funding campaign to save Italy’s dilapidated opera houses, hundreds of which have been left to rot. Four hundred years after the bel paese hosted the ...

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 ...