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 ...

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 ...

On Oct. 25, 2024, Houston Grand Opera will open Cinderella, Rossini’s delightful comedy, in a popular production from director Joan Font, founder of Barcelona-based street-theater troupe Comediants.

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 ...

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 ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Resonance Works will present Gioachino Rossini's ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.

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 ...

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 ...

First time attendees to Gioachino Rossini’s opera “Cinderella” — or “La Cenerentola” by its Italian title — may be surprised to find there’s no mention of a glass slipper. At the time of the opera’s ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville's original international street festival is returning downtown over the weekend. The Rossini Festival is a free international street fair that celebrates the global impact ...