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 ...

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As it seeks to shrug off its reputation as a rubbish strewn, mafia-plagued city in decline, Naples is pinning its hopes for revival on its newly resplendent ­opera house. The San Carlo, Italy's oldest ...

Sadly, not everything in life lives up to expectations. Labour governments, new Tory leaders and England's World Cup performances all come to mind. But a night at the opera at La Scala, such as I had ...

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 ...

In 1937, Aldo Finzi received word that his dream would come true: His newly composed opera, “Serenata al Vento,” would premiere the following year at Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most renowned ...

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 ...