Houston Public Media

Opera Cheat Sheet: Rossini’s Armida

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Rinaldo ed il mago di Ascalona – Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give their ...
WHYY

OperaDelaware presents Rossini’s rare and familiar at Spring Festival

OperaDelaware celebrates the 225th anniversary of the birth of Gioachino Rossini with festival performances this Saturday and Sunday and next weekend. Legend has it that in 1822 a young and wildly ...
Chicago Tribune

Riffing on Rossini, Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’ started as a South Side Chicago comic opera. But its creators had bigger ideas.

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 ...
The Ellsworth American

Rossini opera next up at Winter Harbor Music Festival

One of the most beloved operas of the bel canto repertoire, Gioachino Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri” (Italian Girl in ...
BroadwayWorld

Rossini’s LE COMTE ORY to be Presented at Merola Opera Program

The Merola Opera Program will continue its Summer Festival season with a fully staged production of Rossini’s rarely performed comedic gem, Le Comte Ory. Metropolitan Opera conductor Pierre Vallet ...