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 ...

Wagner College Opera will present Cinderella, weaving together scenes from operatic and musical theatre interpretations, ...

Resonance Works will present Gioachino Rossini's rarely-performed La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) at the Charity Randall Theatre on Friday, June 28, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 30, ...

On Cendrillon, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. But Cendrillon is not a children’s opera. Musically and structurally it behaves like other topflight Rossini comic operas, with scintillating ensembles ...

While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

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.

Opera’s relationship with television and the big screen has always been controversial. So many operas were written with the impact of live singing on an audience in mind that the electricity of that ...