The Verona Arena amphitheater in northern Italy has returned to staging full operas for the first time since the pandemic — but with one big difference. The monumental sets that normally fill ...

Verona's Arena offered the ideal setting, he added: its atmosphere "is warm, conducive to opera. We experience truly magical moments. "When you enter the arena, with this huge audience in front of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are few more spectacular settings for opera than the Verona Arena. For more than a hundred years, the ...