VERONA, ItalyVERONA, Italy — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni joined top political and cultural figures at Verona’s ancient Arena amphitheater Friday night for an open-air celebration of Italian lyric ...

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 you’re willing ...

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 ...

VENICE—Luca Salsi glowered and lurched his way around the stage, clutching his hand to his chest as he geared up for his death scene in “Simon Boccanegra,” Verdi’s opera about a pirate who becomes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian President Sergio Mattarella attends a gala concert at the Arena di Verona, held to celebrate the inclusion of Italian ...

The Museo Italo Americano celebrates the 100th anniversary of San Francisco Opera with a new exhibition: BRAVO—Celebrating San Francisco Opera, Its Italian Roots and Legacy. Presented in partnership ...

Proctors CEO Philip Morris didn’t have a map right in front of him, but he figured that Schenectady was about halfway between Lake George and Cooperstown; which puts it right in the middle of opera ...

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