If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

Juilliard Opera is set to present a double bill of Gioachino Rossini’s "La scala di seta" and Nino Rota’s "I due timidi" on Nov. 14, 17, and 19 in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

The MSU College of Music closes its Worthington Family Foundation Opera Theatre Season with a compelling double bill of Italian opera, Puccini and Rossini: Operas of Consequence and Comedy, in the ...

Amenaide is in love with Tancredi, but her father Argirio, king of Syracuse offers Amenaide in marriage to Orbazzano in order to reconcile the two families. Tancredi wins the battle but is mortally ...

Cairo Opera Company performs Rossini's one-act opera L’inganno felice, a much needed refreshment for Egyptian audiences On Thursday 1 November and Sunday 2 November, soloists from the Cairo Opera ...

'Opera would be absolutely perfect," said Giachino Rossini one day while cooking a gourmet meal in his Paris mansion. "If only we could get rid of those damned singers." Rossini died on Nov 13, 1868, ...

Toronto City Opera, Rossini Opera Festival and Aspes SpA have joined forces, signing a Framework Agreement for collaboration on several initiatives to bring the magic of Gioachino Rossini's operas to ...

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.

The coastal Italian resort of Pesaro is one of those places with views of two seas. There’s the invitingly warm water of the Adriatic, which is separated from the land by a sea of beach umbrellas.