Founded by Elisabetta Russo, Italian Opera LAb in Los Angeles offers free training to young singers while preserving Italy’s ...

The swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced ...

ROME, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Italian opera singing has been added to the United Nations' cultural heritage list, a prestigious accolade for the four-centuries-old art mixing costume drama and music. U.N.

The Arena is the largest open-air theatre in the world - Copyright AFP Marco BERTORELLO The Arena is the largest open-air theatre in the world - Copyright AFP Marco ...

ROME — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact that behind its faded, flaking paint is a hive of activity ...

An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. By Farah Nayeri Is opera an endangered art form ...

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The Italian Opera House and Palmo’s Opera House (below) were the two first purpose-built opera houses, meaning, designed and used specifically for opera. Prior to that, there were other venues used ...

Greater Worcester Opera presents its production "Love Italian Style" June 5 to 8 at Calliope Theatre in Boylston. The production consists of scenes from "La Bohème," "The Telephone," and "La Traviata, ...

Nello Santi, a conductor who was one of the most authoritative interpreters of Italian opera, especially the works of Giuseppe Verdi, and a podium favorite of singers and orchestra players, died on ...