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 ...

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.

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience. By Amelia Nierenberg A Peruvian-born international star, ...

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 Bucharest National Opera will open the Romania–Italy Cultural Year 2026 with a gala concert in Rome on December 1, ...

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 ...

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 ...