From Dublin’s Theatre Royal in 1829 to Wexford’s modern stages, the Italian’s spirit remains woven into Irish operatic ...

— The bringing out of Verdi’s Othello at the Paris Opéra, and the final closing up of the restaurant Magny, — both important events of the late autumn of 1894, — have stranded safely from the ebb tide ...

While the Rossinian celebrations this year will not begin to equal the Lucullan excesses prepared for the bicentenary of Mozart`s death, audiences are in a better position today than at any time over ...

Donald Macleod looks at the winning formula of Rossini's early operas, presenting five takes on his life and music. Rossini had the good fortune to learn his craft not from a course of dry academic ...

At the end of Voltaire's tragedy about the Babylonian queen Semiramis, her son Arsace kills his own mother. The great bel canto composer Rossini later took over the story for a tragic opera, and his ...

That’s how Philip Gossett sums up Gioacchino Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero, first heard in 1819, performed for a few years and then forgotten until 1986. Gossett, a member of the editorial committee of ...

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini participated in what today would be considered an unorthodox business venture to support opera. Discover how contemporary ...

In the heart of Tuscany’s rolling hills and vineyards is Florence – the epicenter of the Renaissance. Artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Botticelli all came from Florence, as did writers Dante ...

And one of the lovely things of this story is when Rossini was famous enough to get invited to Naples, where all this happened, to write operas and have them produced, Rossini demanded a cut of the ...