For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...
“La Cenerentola” is the second-most often performed Rossini opera, with “The Barber Of Seville” being a runaway No. 1. At the Los Angeles Opera, it’s made regular reappearances in 13-year intervals: ...
If you snag a cozy table at the Highland Park Ebell Club for Pacific Opera Project’s upcoming summer production of Rossini’s “La Gazzetta,” expect to experience more than a few moments of operatic ...
Who says that Cinderella needs a pair of glass slippers? In 1817, when Gioachino Rossini penned an opera drawn from the fairy tale, the Italian composer did not include the heroine’s famous footwear.
Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette" and Rossini’s "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Met Opera. The Metropolitan Opera presents Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette," in a new production directed by Bartlett Sher. It ...
Tenor Andrew Morstein, baritone Sejin Park, soprano Laura Corina Sanders, baritone Andy Papas and mezzo-soprano Kelly Guerra Credit: Photo by Pin Lim When the opera’s overture is as zippy and bubbly ...
Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...
The archetypal story of Cinderella will come to the Crouse-Hinds Theater Sunday, May 1, in what will be Syracuse Opera’s first full-scale production since the Covid pandemic shutdown. General and ...
Peter Tregear is covering the role of Elmiro for Melbourne Opera. If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord ...