Italian author, poet and journalist Dino Buzzati, was probably best known for his novel The Tartar Steppe, but it was his short stories that set him apart from other authors from the same era. This could be in part due to the approach he took to his writings. The approach he used was to trea...

Any aspiring musician in this day and age should expect certain things from opera productions; drama, lyricism, and sensitive instrumental accompaniment. But if we observe operas written in the 16th century, we will find a very different style of vocal drama, a formality and dryness that has all bu...