Millions of people from all over the world will soon be traveling to Italy for the Winter Games. But between the ski, skating ...

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s most treasured opera house, Teatro alla Scala, opened its new season Wednesday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” against the backdrop of Ukrainian protests that the cultural ...

Long ReadDominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural ...

MILAN — Italian melodrama's official recognition as a global cultural treasure was celebrated Thursday during La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” with some of the drama spilling out ...

MILAN — Claudio Abbado is returning to La Scala after more than 20 years, and the city is planting 90,000 trees in his honor. Abbado is a native of the city, and was musical director at La Scala for ...

MILAN (AP) — Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina renowned for romantic roles alongside such greats as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, died Thursday at ...

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s La Scala opera house reopened its doors to a restricted audience on Monday, raising hopes of a gradual resumption of Milan’s vivid cultural life after a nearly seven-month ...

Milan’s opera house will stay closed for a further week, as authorities confirm Italy has the most coronavirus cases of any country outside of Asia. Italy’s iconic opera house, La Scala, is keeping ...

(Reuters) - Milan's La Scala opera house, whose history is intertwined with Italy's, launches its 2007-2008 season with Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" with Daniel Barenboim picking up the baton as main ...