It is a privilege to have the opportunity to experience Italian opera in a traditional setting and hear Simon Bocaneggra twice in a week with different cast
All’alba vincero! Vincero! Vincero! After these last words of Puccinis world-famous aria “Nessun Dorma” you could hear the sound of 3000 people on their feet ...
The 53rd cycle of classical performances at the Greek theatre of Syracuse this year is presenting two tragedies from the legend of Oedipus and his cursed descendants...
The excellence of Macbeth is in how indelibly it marks the tragic course of the evil inherent in the human soul, of the inexorable progress flowing fr...
HUMAN, presented as a noun barred by a black line, means the concept of the human being and its negation at the same time. This performance by Marco B...
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts...
This adaptation of the Odyssey by Emma Dante was premiered at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, but the real debut, says the director, was...
It must be a dream for every opera lover the watch Verdi’s wonderful La Traviata, in the courtyard of a medieval palace and under the open sky. The op...