What do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois have in common? Aspects of their work have been juxtaposed in a new opera ...

Italian opera singing has been added to the United Nations' cultural heritage list. Unesco, the UN culture agency, announced it was including the four-centuries-old art, mixing costume, drama and ...

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection ... operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of ...