Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - Rome's opera house has brought down the curtain on years of losses and infighting and started ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's opera house has sacked nearly 200 members of its permanent orchestra and chorus as Italy's worst economic crisis for decades chokes state spending on the arts. Just two weeks ...

ROME — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact that behind its faded, flaking paint is a hive of activity ...

ROME (Reuters) - Riccardo Muti has said "basta" to Rome's opera house after a six-year tenure as honorary director blighted by strikes, infighting and financial woes. The veteran maestro wrote a ...

ROME (AP) — Oscar-winning film director Sofia Coppola is taking a break from movies to direct a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Rome Opera House. Coppola will work alongside fashion ...

The Rome Opera House puts great stress on some kinds of decorum: the doorman turned famed Composer Igor Stravinsky away one night last week because he was not in formal dress. But Romans have no rules ...