Milan's La Scala opera house. Photo by Handout / Quirinale Press Office / AFP) The UN cultural agency on Wednesday added to its list of intangible global heritage Italian opera singing, an art ...

Last month, staff at Catania's opera house staged a funeral in suitably operatic fashion, carrying a coffin through the center of the packed auditorium. The performance wasn't a dramatic staging idea: ...

Peking opera, inscribed in 2010 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is a performance art dating back to the late 18th century and incorporates singing, reciting ...

Italian opera singing has been added to the United Nations' cultural heritage list. Unesco, the UN culture agency, announced it was including the four-centuries-old art, mixing costume, drama and ...

Opera Italiana is in the Air, a unique outdoor global concert series, returns to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with Opera Unbound: A Sunset Serenade on Sunday, June 15 at 6:30 PM. Founded by ...

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy was launched in 2015 in Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. We explore the impact of the maestro on the next generation of opera artists Muti coaching ...

Naples (Italy) (AFP) – Opera originated in Italy, it was sung by Italian patriots and some of the world's greatest arias came from the peninsula. Now Rome wants credit where credit is due. Home to ...

Young students perform the Peking opera Badachui in Wuhan on May 8, 2023.[Photo/CGTN] Peking opera, inscribed in 2010 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is a ...