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 ...

Read about National Opera Day 2025 which is observed every year on 8 February. Learn about its history, significance and fun ...

With pomp and circumstance last week Italians began their formal opera season. In Rome Soprano Claudia Muzio sang in Norma and His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele went to listen, with Queen Elena ...

The Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka and the Pasona Group have signed an agreement for the production of what is set to be a ...

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 ...

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.

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.

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...