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 ...

This beachfront festival, devoted to a beloved native son, may be the world’s most seductively charming annual opera event. By Larry Wolff PESARO, Italy — The collapse of Italy’s governmental ...

Known as one of the great opera composers, famous for The Barber of Seville, Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy and for the past forty-one years, his beachside hometown on the Adriatic has ...

If it weren’t for the popularity of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and “La Cenerentola,” Sarasota Opera might have produced his “The Italian Girl in Algiers” years ago. “They are so ...

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.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Transgressive Theatre-Opera continues its fourth season with a double header of ...

Gioachino Rossini retired from composing opera at age 37 after composing 39 operas, some of which remain the most popular operas on the planet even today. You know his music even if you’re not (yet) ...

As with so many comic operas, “The Barber of Seville” is marked by a plot brimming with false identities and improbable twists and turns. The music by Giacomo Rossini is, however, glorious; and if you ...