In rehearsal with stage director Ben Robinson for L'Italiana in Algeri at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Eiki Isomura Combine a helter skelter libretto with a classic Rossini score complete ...

Knoxville Opera’s 18th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair is hitting the streets of Downtown Knoxville on Saturday, April 13. A “legacy event,” as described by Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...

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 ...

Il viaggio a Reims or The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Lilly is a comic opera, originally performed in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi. Rossini ...

Merola Opera Program staged Rossini's "Le Comte Ory," a charming, farcical work full of luscious bel canto singing, in a delightful production at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Calling for ...

On Oct. 25, 2024, Houston Grand Opera will open Cinderella, Rossini’s delightful comedy, in a popular production from director Joan Font, founder of Barcelona-based street-theater troupe Comediants.

Gioachino Rossini is like a train conductor, constantly propelling the movement forward. Opera Southwest will accelerate that rhythm in the composer’s “L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a ...

On Semiramide at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. At the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro—the composer’s birthplace on the Adriatic—it is always a treat when a major work of the composer’s ...

This Easter, on Saturday 8 April 2023, Cape Town Opera brings Rossini's Stabat Mater to the beautiful Toringkerk in Paarl. This masterpiece is one of the best known and beloved hymns to Mary, ...

Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.