Milan, Aida

A colossal performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida will take place at the Meazza stadium in Milan on 11 June 2011. On June 11 the first opera will be performed at the largest stadium in Europe, stadiu.

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Milan, Inauguration of the 2010/2011 Opera Season, Teatro della Scala

La Valchiria by Richard Wagner inaugurates the forthcoming opera season of Scala di Milano, an occasion which also celebrates the city’s patron saint, Sant’Ambrogio on the 7 December. Internati.

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Verona’s Arena: from Gladiators to Maria Callas

In 1947 the then unknown opera singer Maria Callas debuted here, while in the 70s a young Pavarotti warbled the melodic Barber of Seville. Slightly smaller than the imposing Coliseum of Rome, the Are.

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Operatic Italy in Rossini’s home town

Goacchino Rossini wrote 39 operas in all. Amongst them are the classics The Barber of Seville, The Thieving Magpie and William Tell. He was born to musician parents, with a strange mix of the trades. .

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