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 ...
Rossini's rarely heard comedy showcased at the Rossini Opera Festival 2022, stars Juan Diego Flórez as Count Ory, a handsome rogue who finds women, all women, irresistible. High jinks ensue when ...
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 ...
The Manoel Theatre is staging a new production of Gioachino Rossini’s opera Armida in March. First performed in November 1817, the opera tells the tale of the Saracen sorceress Armida, who uses her ...
Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Rossini’s timeless romantic comedy Cinderella, transporting audiences to a world of enchantment from January 21 to February 10, 2024. Considered one of his finest ...
But opera has always thrived on intrusion: it takes the mess of reality, distorts it, beautifies it, and hands it back to us in a form we can bear to contemplate. This year in Pesaro, comic and ...
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Sarasota Opera found a way to present live performances of one-act and rarely seen works to keep limited-capacity audiences (and home streaming viewers) ...
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 ...
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 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.
The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de ...
Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres came together for a sky-scraping Rossini concert at the 92nd Street Y. By Zachary Woolfe Fans of N.F.L. RedZone — the TV channel that whips around the country each ...