Omicidio all'Arena di Verona

A voice falls silent. The orchestra plays on. What did the audience really see?

Japanese arts patron Kenji Mori comes to Verona to hear Aida. When soprano Rossana collapses during the performance, the evening becomes something he must try to understand. Alongside Giuliana Ferretti, who works in the costume department, he encounters accounts that need checking, times that must be compared and a pass whose use does not automatically reveal who carried it.

Kenji must separate observation from interpretation. His conversations with his daughter Yuki bring another question into focus: can he listen without deciding in advance what someone else should say?

Read an Italian mystery set around the Arena while practising the language of evidence, uncertainty and personal relationships.

For adult intermediate learners at upper B1 with guidance and B2 working more independently, the book offers five Italian narrative chapters with English learning support. Selected Italian-English glossaries and five contextual verb Focus sections accompany the story. Twenty-five exercises contain 250 questions for reading comprehension and grammar practice. Five guided writing activities include Italian model responses, and an answer key supports independent review of the exercises.

Follow the clues, reconsider your assumptions and use the writing tasks to give your interpretation in Italian.

Omicidio all'Arena di Verona is Book 5 of Misteri Italiani by Roberto Borzellino. It stands on its own; reading the series in order is optional.