Opera returns to Milan's La Scala
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Milan's world-famous opera house La Scala is re-opening on Tuesday after a three-year closure for renovation.
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The trial of Silvio Berlusconi resumes in Milan as Italy's former PM is treated for a minor heart complaint.
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There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila.
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Opera singer Russell Watson is recovering after an emergency operation to remove a brain tumour.
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The choice of Antonio Salieri's long-forgotten opera "Europa Riconosciuta" seemed just right when La Scala reopened on Tuesday night after nearly three years of renovation.
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La Scala, one of the world's most celebrated opera theaters, reopened to the public and to music Tuesday after nearly three years of renovation that cost about $67 million.
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(AGI) - Milano, 24 set. - Il Teatro alla Scala ha deciso di non firmare la produzione dell Forza del destino, in programma dal 16 ottobre alla Royal Opera House di Londra (Covent Garden), a causa delle sostanziali modifiche apportate all&#39;allestimento.
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Top tenor Roberto Alagna, who stormed off the stage at Milan's La Scala after he was booed in mid-performance, said on Tuesday he would sue the famed opera house if they did not let him return.
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Chailly dirige, tra l'altro, brani di Verdi e Rossini
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A highly acclaimed version  of Dmitry Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" has  returned to London's Royal Opera House on the 100th anniversary  of the Russian composer's birth, bowling the critics over with  its originality.
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Milan is paying tribute to Gianni Versace on the 10th anniversary of his murder, hosting a star-studded ballet performance at La Scala on Sunday night.
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A month before La Scala raises its  curtain after three years of renovation, the opera house is  still packed with hammering builders and busy decorators -- but  organizers say it will be alright on the night.
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A British audience will be the first in  nearly 300 years Friday to hear a series of arias by Italian  composer Antonio Vivaldi, which were recently found at a castle  in western England.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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Just when Microsoft thought it had the EU out of its hair, Opera may have brought it back to the bargaining table.
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By Sally Vallongo, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 3--The Toledo Opera goes to great lengths to build tomorrow's audiences.