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 ...

Gioachino Rossini is like a train conductor, constantly propelling the movement forward. Opera Southwest will accelerate that rhythm in the composer’s “L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a ...

Like sands in the hourglass, Isabella’s world turns in the LSU Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s soapy comic opera, “L’Italiania in Algeri.” The show opens on Thursday, in LSU’s Claude L.

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Ménages a trois are rare sights on the stage of the Lyric Opera, but one makes an appearance in “Le Comte Ory,” the rather ribald comic opera from Gioachino Rossini, here to warm the cockles of ...

Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. This irreverent tickler delivers just about ...

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 ...

Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances. Donors love it for its vocal gymnastics, memorable arias and sparkling melodies. Receptive newcomers like it because of its delightful ...