Award-winning Black opera singer, Angel Blue, withdrew from a performance scheduled for later this month in Italy. Blue shared on social media that the venue used “blackface makeup” in a showing of ...

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 ...

‘If you haven’t been to the opera at the Arena di Verona, you cannot say you’ve been to Italy.’ The arena’s official social media slogan might seem a tad overloaded with hyperbole. But there’s only ...

Experience the grandeur of the Arena di Verona from the sky, capturing its ancient Roman architecture, iconic elliptical ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The American soprano Angel Blue said she would not appear at the Arena di Verona after the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and other performers wore ...

Local wedding planner Giulia Bolla plans a Valentine's-worthy interlude in Verona, from strolling along the River Adige to popping the question at Castel San Pietro. One look at Verona's medieval ...

The Arena di Verona was seized by the public prosecutor who opened a file for culpable damage following the collapse of part of the comet with which the amphitheater was decorated at Christmas. The ...

ROME, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheatre in the heart of the northern Italian city, will host the closing ceremony for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, local organisers ...

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, ...