Opera in Roma at St Paul’s Within the Walls

Opera in Roma is a Roman concert company, not a Fever format: it also stages concerts in Florence, Naples and Sorrento, and you book these two evenings through Fever. Both take place at the Chiesa di San Paolo Entro le Mura on Via Nazionale, known in English as St Paul’s Within the Walls, and both begin at 20:30. For the Three Tenors the doors open at 20:00.

The Three Tenors evening, subtitled Nessun Dorma, lasts about 90 minutes. It is inspired by the famous concerts of Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, and Fever says plainly that three Rome tenors take on those roles: this is a tribute, and the three originals are not involved. The programme mixes Neapolitan songs such as Funiculì Funiculà and Torna a Surriento with arias from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Tosca. Fever lists mandolin, piano and dancers alongside the singers, so expect a warm, varied show rather than a staged opera.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is the quieter evening, about 75 minutes on Mondays. The Opera in Roma Baroque Orchestra and soloists play Vivaldi and Bach, and reviewers on Fever mention how well the music sounds in the church.

The building is reason enough to come. St Paul’s is an Episcopal church designed by the English architect George Edmund Street in a Gothic Revival style of striped brick and stone, consecrated in 1876. The apse and chancel carry mosaics designed by Edward Burne-Jones, with Christ Enthroned in the Heavenly Jerusalem finished in 1885. On concert nights you sit facing them.

Book the Three Tenors if you want voices: it held 4.56 from 215 reviews on Fever on 10 November 2026, it is the longer evening, and its repertoire is Italy’s own. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is the better rated of the two, 4.69 from 195 reviews, and it is the one to choose for instrumental music or if you are in Rome on a Monday. Both start from the same prices.

Our Candlelight concerts page covers a different kind of night. Choose Candlelight for film scores and pop played by a string quartet for about an hour among flameless candles: Ennio Morricone at Palazzo Ripetta held 4.62 from 862 reviews and Queen & ABBA 4.76 from 161 on 10 November 2026, both from 27 euros on 11 November. Choose Opera in Roma for live singing, a longer concert, and a church with its mosaics in place of a hotel hall. If it is Vivaldi you are after, this version held 4.69 from 195 reviews from 20 euros, against 4.52 from 234 and from 27 euros for Candlelight’s Vivaldi at Palazzo Ripetta.

Two rivals are worth knowing. I Virtuosi dell’Opera di Roma also perform at this church, 4.41 from 32 reviews on Fever, from 25 euros, with dates from 12 November to 10 December 2026: check which company you are buying. The Great Opera Arias at Palazzo della Cancelleria held 4.8 from only 17 reviews, at 70 euros.

Opera in Roma also sells tickets on its own website. We could not read its direct prices on 10 November 2026, so we cannot say whether buying there is cheaper; if price matters, compare the two before you book.