Italian labels body FIMI and research firm GFK have published their annual consumption stats for Italy’s recorded-music ...

Four decades after their first historic performance in Italy, at the Sanremo song fest in 1985, British synth-pop band Duran ...

that the reason is “the fictitious and arbitrary valuation” of singers’ services. To directors of the Academy he reported that only a drastic cut in salaries could save opera in Italy.

Although historians argue that the link between his music and nationalism may have formed more gradually than is often claimed, his work resonated deeply with the people. In 1855, an Italian ...