Another Metropolitan Opera opening night, another new production of a Donizetti opera starring the charismatic soprano Anna Netrebko. Or so it seems these days.

Rome, Italy - The Rhode Show was the only local media invited to accompany the WaterFire team as they took the unique art event overseas for a lighting in the Italian capital of Rome. This marked the first WaterFire in all of Europe.

Nigella Lawson is the latest chef to showcase an interpretation of Italian food. It's a cuisine heralded for its traditional tastes and style, but has its authenticity been lost along the way?

Barclays Center welcomes Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli as first class act. Newly minted Barclays Center is set to offer Brooklyn one of her first tastes of opera when Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli comes to town this coming winter. The now home of the newly re-branded Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The new complex looks to be on the ball with a performance from the Italian maestro.

In the 1980s, Benetton was a youthful brand beloved for its sweaters and socially aware advertising. Then it all but disappeared from the U.S. market. Now it’s launching a reinvention campaign with a new, fashion-forward collection.

ROME – Italian state broadcaster RAI announced Thursday it expects to close 2012 around €200 million ($252 million) in the red, despite new statistics out the same day that show that RAI’s three networks held a small lead as the most watched networks in prime time over the first half of this year.

MILAN — With “Donatella’s Hit Picks” and an offer to personalize looks, the house of Versace introduced this week its online flagship store, versace.com.

LONDON — For once, Fabio Quagliarella might have been grateful not to finish a complete game. His number was called 10 minutes from the end of Juventus’s 2-0 victory over Chievo Verona on Saturday, but as he walked toward the substitutes’ bench, the home crowd began singing his name. His first name anyway, because Quagliarella is quite a mouthful even for Italians.

MILAN — With a balcony lined with trailing ivy and upstanding cacti and the runway filled with references to colorful Sicilian markets, the Dolce & Gabbana show on Sunday was never going to be in the minimalist mode.

MILAN — How to give minimalism maximum impact is once again the focus of fashion. The art movement that dominated the 20th century is looking for ways to have an impact on the new millennium, now that its founding features like a fascination with mechanics have been challenged.