Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed some of the greatest operas ever – La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello and many others. But he regarded his finest accomplishment not as a particular opera but ...