A few days after the success of Shanghai, the targeted marketing action of the Arena Foundation for the promotion of the Opera Festival Arena continued in New York. At the Rosenthal Pavilion of the ...

In the short space of time since George Floyd was murdered in 2020 and the Black Lives Matter movement gained broader support, education about what racism looks like has – in some quarters – made ...

Anna Netrebko is starring as Aida in the Verdi opera of the same name at the Arena di Verona’s summer festival, and the Italian venue has defended its decision to darken the soprano’s skin for the ...

It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman ...

American soprano Angel Blue said she will not be performing in an upcoming opera in Italy following a controversy over the use of blackface. Blue was set to join the cast of "La Traviata" starting ...

VERONA, Italy (AP) — The colossal Roman-era Verona Arena amphitheater remains an imposing presence in the northern Italian city's main piazza, but its place in the opera world has waned in recent ...

The mayor of Verona and President of Fondazione Arena Federico Sboarina, the Superintendent and Artistic Director of the Arena di Verona Foundation Cecilia Gasdia, together with the director Hugo de ...

Angel Blue, an African American soprano, has stepped down from her role in La Traviata at the Arena Di Verona in Verona, Italy. The reason is because a production of Verdi’s opera Aida performed ...

When opera was born, in Florence around 1600, no one could have imagined that it might develop from its intimate courtly origins into the kind of mammoth public spectacle that, three centuries later, ...