Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. By A.J. Goldmann The Italian ...

Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, whose American career has taken off in recent years with his appointment as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and with high-profile ...

ROME, Nov 7 (Reuters) - An Italian opera house has cancelled performances by a Russian singer seen as close to President Vladimir Putin, in a move welcomed by the Italian government. Russian bass ...

MILAN (AP) — Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure was celebrated Thursday during La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” with some of the drama spilling ...

Long before K-pop took off, it was South Korea's classical musicians who were rocking the music world. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports on an historic Italian opera house that's been around for nearly 2 1/2 ...

British conductor Edward Gardner has said he “regrets” and apologises for making comments about the singers of an Italian opera house. The London Philharmonic Orchestra principal conductor was ...