For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

“La Cenerentola” is the second-most often performed Rossini opera, with “The Barber Of Seville” being a runaway No. 1. At the Los Angeles Opera, it’s made regular reappearances in 13-year intervals: ...

If you snag a cozy table at the Highland Park Ebell Club for Pacific Opera Project’s upcoming summer production of Rossini’s “La Gazzetta,” expect to experience more than a few moments of operatic ...

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.

Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette" and Rossini’s "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Met Opera. The Metropolitan Opera presents Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette," in a new production directed by Bartlett Sher. It ...

Much ado about nothing? Or everything? With light comedy, lack of tragedy, minimal plot, and a succession of glorious arias, the Rossini opera Il viaggio a Reims was definitely ‘ado’ — in overdrive — ...

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 archetypal story of Cinderella will come to the Crouse-Hinds Theater Sunday, May 1, in what will be Syracuse Opera’s first full-scale production since the Covid pandemic shutdown. General and ...

Meet the cast of The Lyric Opera of Chicago's CINDERELLA — onstage January 21 through February 10 starring Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Jack Swanson, Alessandro Corbelli, Joshua Hopkins, Nicholas Newton, ...