Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

According to Michele Mariotti, music director of the Rome Opera, “Japan is like a second home” for Italy’s opera and classical music community. While the art form is seen as a “part of Italy’s ...

ROME — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact that behind its faded, flaking paint is a hive of activity ...

Swedish soprano Cornelia Beskow stars in the lead role of Jenůfa in this production of Leoš Janáček’s three-act opera of the same name. Based on a play by Gabriela Preissová named Její pastorkyň, the ...

This summer, the Orange County Ars Vocalis Academy sent 13 young artists to Rome for three weeks to study opera. Founded by Dubravka Zubovic in 2012, the academy offers training to advanced high ...

Rome may seem eternally plagued by challenges but the capital's unlikely success stories should serve as a reminder that positive change is possible in the Italian city. In just five years, the Teatro ...

Italian maestro Riccardo Muti opened the Rome Opera season on Sunday with Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth as an opera house little known on the international music circuit makes an ambitious bid for prestige ...

A month after threatening to sack its entire orchestra and chorus, Rome’s historic opera house has pulled back from the brink, hammering out an accord with its fractious unions. The management of the ...

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