Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian President Sergio Mattarella attends a gala concert at the Arena di Verona, held to celebrate the inclusion of Italian ...

VERONA, ItalyVERONA, Italy — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni joined top political and cultural figures at Verona’s ancient Arena amphitheater Friday night for an open-air celebration of Italian lyric ...

Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...

Giacomo Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West," the Italian composer's most famous American opera, was translated by Thomas ...

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 ...

Mr. Santi, who led hundreds of performances at the Metropolitan Opera, was a renowned interpreter of Puccini and, especially, Verdi. By Jonathan Kandell Nello Santi, a conductor who was one of the ...

The influence can be traced back to the 1800s when opera companies and their star singers traveled from Italy to perform across the country. How Italian opera influenced Mexican ranchera It's a full ...