The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

Given Verdi’s music for Gilda, that centering proves less of an uphill climb than one might first think. Yes, the jester gets the title role, perhaps the finest for a baritone in all Italian opera.

Roberto Alagna is a French-Italian tenor known for his passionate singing and dramatic performances. He has been a leading figure in opera for over three decades. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a ...

Minhtu Phan joined dozens of teachers at a French-language adult education centre in Quebec City on Friday morning as he held up a sign objecting to cutting French-language classes across the ...

Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar contender for a performance that involved seven months of opera training. Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar nominee for her role as a ...

Instead, "they were victims of (Italy's) colonial and fascist regime." Brothers of Italy traces its roots to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), formed in 1946 as a direct heir of Mussolini's ...

Italy’s prominent banking institution, Intesa Sanpaolo, has reached an agreement with labor unions to facilitate 9,000 voluntary job reductions, representing roughly 10% of its workforce. This ...

The Vermont Philharmonic went to the opera Sunday — and the glorious sounds of Italian opera resonated throughout the Barre Opera House. But it was a performance of a 1911 work by Samuel ...

It's not a political revolution like 1776, it's more like the French Revolution of 1789 or, I think, really close to Mao's second revolution -- the Cultural Revolution. By that, I mean it's holistic.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Reporting from Troy, N.Y. The opera opened with amplified breathing: gasps, hisses, labored inhalations. A string quartet introduced spidery harmonics that ...

In addition to the Italian Ministry of Defense, the following are participating in the "World Tour-Villaggio Italia" initiative: the Presidency of the Council of Ministers-with the Minister for ...