Maria Callas, The Exhibition – the life of La Divina on display in Verona
Maria Callas: The Exhibition in Verona, runs throughout the summer opera season until 18 September 2016. It is the largest such exhibition dedicated to La…
Franco Zeffirelli is named one of 35 living descendants of Leonardo da Vinci
Franco Zefirelli in 2008 – photo by Alexey Yushenkov 35 living descendants of Leonardo Da Vinci's family have been identified. Although…
ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016 – 2017: theatre, cinema and radio
Turandot – © ROH/ TRISTRAM KENTON All the details of the 2016-2017 Opera Season at London's Royal Opera House: skip to…
Barenboim drops Callas's 93-year-old Annina from tonight's Traviata in Berlin
Luisa Mandelli with Maria Callas in La traviata, 1955 93-year-old Luisa Mandelli, who sixty years ago was the Annina in Luchino…
Renata Scotto vs Maria Callas – the 1970 fight at La Scala
When Renata Scotto made her début in I vespri siciliani at La Scala to open the theatre's season on 7 December 1970, one of the…
Renata Scotto on slapping a tenor, the divine Callas, and… Bocelli
Renata Scotto, 1967, by Mario De Biasi (Mondadori) [Public domain] via Wikimedia CommonsRenata Scotto has never been one to hold her…
Interview with Virginia Zeani at 90 “My brain believes that I'm eternally young”
La Scala's ousted singer returns for Cenerentola at La Scala
Cenerentola for Children at La Scala, 2015 Alexander Pereira's appointment as General Manager of La Scala came with the usual chorus…
The perfect Bohème at La Scala… magisterial, stunning!
from left, Vittorio Grigolo, Carlo Colombara, Davide Pelissero, Mattia Olivieri and Massimo Cavalletti in La bohème – photo Teatro alla Scala,…
Tenor fractures spine after stage collapses during Turandot
Friday night's performance of Turandot at the open-air theatre in Torre del Lago nearly finished in more tragedy than the opera had already delivered when, just after midnight,…
