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Arena di Verona: Opera Festival 2022
This year, in anticipation of the 100th edition, the Opera Festival 2022 finally return to large productions in the setting

Jacques Offenbach: the most important writer of popular music in the 19th century
Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) was arguably the most important writer of popular music in the 19th century. He created a type

The history of the Overtures: when first impressions count
You never get a second chance to make a first impression! Thankfully this isn’t always true, but a good start

Pietro Mascagni: the composer and the conductor
Pietro Mascagni enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people’s

Stabat Mater: Rossini’s sacred masterpiece
Performed for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre-Italien’s Salle Ventadour on 7 January 1842, the Stabat Mater is

UNESCO: Italy candidate Italian opera as an intangible heritage of humanity
Last month in Rome during an online meeting chaired by Franco Bernabè, the Board of Directors of the UNESCO Italian