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 ...

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 ...

In a major coup for the venue, the American film director, along with costumes by Valentino will add allegria to a new production of Verdi’s classic The American film director Sofia Coppola is to make ...

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 ...

Italians dismayed as star conductor pulls out of two productions at company hit by strike threats and protests The star Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has pulled out of two productions and in effect ...

Czech composer Leoš Janáček carved a name for himself as an explorer of unusual musical patterns and even stranger tales. For his final opera, From the House of the Dead, or Z mrtvého domu in Czech, ...

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 sustaining one ...

Italian culture is one of the most exportable cultures in the world. When you have a pizza date, your morning caffè, or some pasta at dinner, that’s a piece of Italy right there. People from all over ...

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 ...