He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a ...

To overcome his grief, Verdi throws himself into a new opera ... representative in the first Italian parliament, but in 1865, he retired in order to focus on music. His next great work, Don ...

Unesco, the UN culture agency, announced it was including the four-centuries-old art, mixing costume, drama and music, under its category of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Italian opera developed ...

Erin Helyard, Taryn Fiebig and the musicians of Pinchgut Opera perform Baroque masterworks by Handel, written when the composer was in Italy during this 20s. Filmed live at the Eugene Goossens Hall, ...

Opera began in Italy in the 16th Century and was performed ... English and Spanish. This form of vocal music was in contrast to the religious music being composed at the time.

Every year, opera music is performed at the BBC Proms ... sang it at the football World Cup in Italy to a packed stadium. At the same tournament, Pavarotti’s 1972 recording was used as the ...

Located in the heart of historic Turin, the Teatro Regio ranks among the most prestigious of Italy's opera houses, Piedmont's ...