Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural institutions since ...

Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni’s loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his ...

MANILA, Philippines — The embassy of Italy in the Philippines bared its ... attempt to produce opera in a space that is not an opera house, and which is home to people who do not have many ...

The Teatro La Fenice is one of Italy's most popular opera houses ... Although renovated in 1996, the historic opera house still has an old-world feel with decadent, intricately designed gold ...

Meyer, a Frenchman, was the third straight foreigner to run Italy’s premiere opera house. The theatre’s new general manager is Fortunato Ortombina, who arrives from Venice’s La Fenice ...

Puccini's ever popular Tosca from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ... the day Napoleon invaded Italy.