NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty ...
Once banned from opera houses during the Jim Crow era, rarely-seen works by American composers of color are finally gracing U.S. stages, thanks to two New Orleans-based mezzo-sopranos. In ...
Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna di Resburgo” its first performances since its premiere in 1835. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Montclair, N.J. Luck has a lot to do with ...
Only one copy survives of Carolina Uccelli’s 1835 opera “Anna di Resburgo.” The story behind it is a human one, touching and somewhat sad. Carolina Uccelli, the courageous but unfulfilled 19th-century ...
The opera “Andromeda” being performed in Lithuania as a part of the 700th anniversary of the country’s capital city of Vilnius. Andromeda is an historical Baroque-style opera written in the 1600s by a ...
“It was a great pleasure to listen to Morricone’s music, the real protagonist of this opera,” said Giovanni Capuano, a 26-year-old cinema student, after Thursday's rehearsal. “His spirit is back and ...