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Italy's Loveliest City For Travelers Who Don't Need World-Class Sites, Per Rick Steves
Today, it hosts the world-class opera festival every summer and is a must-visit site for ancient history lovers in Italy. The city's historic center, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site in ...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Uniting Italy With Music
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the Middle Ages broke Italy into city-states that took center ... Verdi throws himself into a new opera, Nabucco, which will debut in 1842 and begin ...
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Italian Opera’s Arrival in the U.S. Is Celebrated at Columbia
A recent event at the Italian Academy launched a five-year initiative featuring world premieres, conferences, and other ...
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Want to see opera outdoors? There's only one place to go, and it's not NYC. It's Naples.
The Opera Naples festival offers three weeks of fully staged operas, the Tchaikovsky ballet "Sleeping Beauty" and more.
Sarasota Opera brings back Verdi’s rarely seen ‘Stiffelio’
Giuseppe Verdi pulled his opera ‘Stiffelio’ after its premiere because of censorship. It took more than 100 years before it returned to the stage.