MILAN- Striking opera house workers at Milan's prestigious La Scala have forced the cancellation of a performance on Sunday of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" conducted by Russian maestro Valery Gergiev,...

VIENNA- Vienna Opera's musical director Franz Welser-Moest collapsed while conducting a Wagner opera after suffering a severe attack of lumbago when he raised his baton, the prestigious opera house...

VIENNA- An opera about Nazi atrocities on children suffering with physical and mental handicaps at a hospital in Vienna after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany had its world premiere Friday....

BUCHAREST- Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu announced Thursday that she and French-Italian tenor Roberto Alagna were getting a divorce, in an interview with Mediafax news agency. "We have decided...

VIENNA- The Salzburg Festival, one of the world's top classical music events, was in disarray Monday after the conductor of one of the centrepiece performances for the next three years withdrew in a...

ROME- Italian conductor Riccardo Muti on Tuesday opens the new season at Rome Opera devoted to Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner with a performance of "Simon Boccanegra" by the great Italian Romantic...

VIENNA- The famed Salzburg Festival ended Sunday having marked up record ticket sales, after a month and a half of music, operas and concerts featuring top international names. In total, almost...

BAYREUTH, Germany- The production team of the new staging of "The Flying Dutchman" that opened this year's Bayreuth Festival was loudly booed at the opening night, while the cast received rapturous...

BERLIN- Germany's Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, famous for its annual Wagner festival, joins the list of sites classed by UN cultural body UNESCO as world heritage, the organisation said on...