Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

"Where, two hundred years ago, we sent poets, today we delight in each other’s music – whether it is the wonder of Italian opera at Covent Garden – or Ed Sheeran at the Stadio Olimpico.

Rigoletto has undergone ­radical transformations in the past, including the English National Opera’s mafioso-style ­version in 1982, which shifted the ­original’s 16th Century Italian ...

This organization began forging its path in the opera world in 2021 with the mission of presenting Italian opera masterworks that rarely-if ever- grace the stage in the United States,” said ...

R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak ...

Fort Worth Opera brings its season to a close this weekend at Bass Performance Hall with an Italian composer's take on the classic fairy tale Cinderella. It’s the company’s first fully staged ...

The opera, a classic example of the Italian operatic style of verismo, explores life and tragedy in a 19th century Italian village. “Audiences loved our production of Pagliacci last fall ...

This production is sponsored by Elavon. An Opera Seria in three acts, Deidamia was composed in 1740 and premiered in 1741. Handel's last Italian opera before he turned to oratorio is an unjustly ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s ...