For anyone lucky enough to have seen a performance at the beautiful Arena di Verona will know that out of the thousands of seats, very few are actually comfortable. Three hours sitting on stone steps ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Convincing Verdi to compose Nabucco was not a simple matter. Still under thirty, he had vowed never to compose ...

Aida at the Arena di Verona. Photo: Fondazione Arena di Verona. Aida is all about spectacle, and in Verona’s first-century Roman amphitheater, it has a special resonance, a meeting between two ancient ...

The 2017 Arena di Verona Opera Festival will be staged from June 23rd to August 27th. The program consists in 48 evenings with 5 operas and 3 special events. On Friday June 23rd at 9.00 pm Opening ...

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Since 2014, Gaulitana: A Festival of Music has presented full-scale operatic productions as part of the artistic endeavour, garnering international acclaim as "a major festival of classical music" by ...