Knoxville Opera’s 18th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair is hitting the streets of Downtown Knoxville on Saturday, April 13. A “legacy event,” as described by Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...

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A few weeks ago we did the best second-best symphonies. This week we’re going to do the best second-best operas. For the sake of argument, a composer’s second-best opera is any opera that isn’t his ...

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 ...

Christopher Bozeka and Lindsay Ohse star in “Le comte Ory” at Opera Southwest. (Courtesy of Opera Southwest) Gioachino Rossini's "Le comte Ory" mixes the sensuality of Ravel with the highjinks of ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The 45th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival, to be held in Pesaro from 7 ...

William Tell is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell, which, in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...