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 ...

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

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.

Operatic Soprano Tiffany Herring will perform Saturday during an event called “History of Italy and Italian Opera in Eight Vocal ... I studied music here all through my childhood and high ...

Aug 26, 2024 Aug 26, 2024 Updated Dec 1, 2024 The tunes of the late-Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and other opera singers are ... The new classical music soundtrack plays 24/7, they say.

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, ...

Then there is the music: colourful, lush, grand and intimate, vast and deeply personal all at the same time. The composer ...