"The Barber of Seville," San Francisco Opera''s charming opener of the summer season, is a Rossini gem about power plays, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...

“Cinderella” is a barnstormer of a title — enough to make a dent in the age of the average operagoer — but there is no fairy godmother, glass slipper, pumpkin, nor midnight rush for home in Rossini’s ...

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 (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.

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 ...

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 ...