Award-winning Black opera singer, Angel Blue, withdrew from a performance scheduled for later this month in Italy. Blue shared on social media that the venue used “blackface makeup” in a showing of ...

Arena di Verona has released a statement in response to Angel Blue’s cancellation, which came after allegations of Blackface surfaced at the famed Italian venue. Set to play the lead role of Violetta, ...

Il Trovatore is playing near Morden. Local showtimes and cinemas now playing Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore near Morden ...

Anna Netrebko is starring as Aida in the Verdi opera of the same name at the Arena di Verona’s summer festival, and the Italian venue has defended its decision to darken the soprano’s skin for the ...

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Spectators watch Rossini’s ‘’Barbiere di Siviglia’’ at the Verona Arena, in Verona, Northern Italy, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. After the colossal Roman-era Verona Arena amphitheater lost audience and ...

Angel Blue, an African American soprano, has stepped down from her role in La Traviata at the Arena Di Verona in Verona, Italy. The reason is because a production of Verdi’s opera Aida performed ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The American soprano Angel Blue said she would not appear at the Arena di Verona after the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and other performers wore ...

Take a 4K walking tour through Verona, Italy, on a warm summer day. Stroll along sunlit streets, admire ancient Roman architecture, and pass by cozy cafés and historic piazzas. From the Arena di ...

When opera was born, in Florence around 1600, no one could have imagined that it might develop from its intimate courtly origins into the kind of mammoth public spectacle that, three centuries later, ...

For the centenary of the Verona Opera Festival, Jonas Kaufmann gave a gala concert in the Arena on 20 August 2023. With colleagues Sonya Yoncheva and Ludovic Tézier, and accompanied by the Orchestra ...