“Let’s do a Rossini comedy that doesn’t exist yet,” the head of the Glimmerglass Festival said. Coming soon: Ken Ludwig’s “Tenor Overboard.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli Comic operas tend to be ...

"The Barber of Seville," San Francisco Opera''s charming opener of the summer season, is a Rossini gem about power plays, ...

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...

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 ...

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), an ebullient, easygoing man, wrote 39 operas, and stopped at the age of 37 with the explanation that he was “too lazy” to compose any more. Because his operas ...

From March 25 and 27-29 The Michigan State University College of Music closed its opera season with “Puccini and Rossini: Operas of Consequence and Comedy." The performance was held at Fairchild ...

As he prepares to start his 43rd year as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi said he is working toward the same goals now that he had at the start of his long tenure. “My goal is ...

Rossini’s Maometto Secondo and Verdi’s Don Carlo, each among their composer’s grandest and most ambitious works, arrived last week courtesy of Teatro Nuovo and the Metropolitan Opera, respectively.

“Cinderella” is a barnstormer of a title — enough to make a dent in the age of the average operagoer — but there is no fairy godmother, glass slipper, pumpkin, nor midnight rush for home in Rossini’s ...