About opera

Cav & Pag – a journey into Verismo
Pagliacci is an Italian opera with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Together with Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, it

Gaetano Donizetti and the horror side of opera
A woman dressed in black appears showing five coffins for her poisoned victims. She is Lucrezia Borgia featured in Donizetti’s

Giuseppe Mazzini and opera
“Music is the fragrance of the universe.” An intense and passionate phrase that does not belong to a musician, as

Turandot at the Rome Opera House
Turandot is an opera in 3 acts and 5 scenes, set to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni,

Fryderyk Chopin: the poet of the piano
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music, sometimes

Farewell to Mirella Freni, exceptional soprano and friend of Big Luciano
The soprano Mirella Freni, who died recently due to a long illness, would have turned 85 on February 27, 2020.