Rossini News

Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux has been in Vienna this fall, singing the title role of Rossini's Tancredi under RenA© Jacobs and the role of Ernesto in Haydn's Il Mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Director Irina Brook loves stories in which bad people become nice. How about stories in which good people get what they deserve? Brook has found both in "Cinderella," a story as old as time -- it can be traced to at least the First Century BCE -- and as fresh as today.

Fans of the famous fairy tale Cinderella can catch the madcap world-premiere production of "Cindy Bella ," an updated, urban take on the fable now playing through Sunday at Shakespeare & Company's Founders' Theatre in Lenox.

Great Performances at the Met opens its fourth season with a new production of Puccini's Tosca , staged by Luc Bondy in his Metropolitan Opera debut, and starring Karita Mattila in her first Met performance of the title role.

Brian Salesky, Executive Director and Conductor of Knoxville Opera, is delighted to announce the company's 3rd Annual Oak Ridge Community Concert.

The star of "Cindy Bella '' is Heather Fisch . You might think that the world doesn't need another "Cinderella,'' that the classic fairy tale has been Disneyed to death.

A sonic wave of Rossini swirls down the halls of George Middle School in North Portland.

The Lied Center at the University of Kansas will present American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke performing works by master composers Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stephen Sondheim and Kurt Weill at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan.

A Metropolitan Opera presentation of an opera in three acts by Jacques Offenbach and Jules Barbier.

Hispanics for L.A. Opera , the support group founded 18 years ago by Alicia and Ed Clark of Pasadena, staged its 12th annual Placido Awards dinner on Nov.

In April of 1336, Tamerlano , also known as Tamerlane, Tamburlaine, or Timur the Lame, was born in what is now Uzbekistan.

February 10th: Verdi's " Il Trovatore " returns to the Metropolitan Opera in a lusty production by David McVicar, with Sondra Radvanovsky singing potently as Leonora.

'Tis the season at the Music Center for holiday entertainment. "Mary Poppins" is flitting about the Ahmanson Theater; the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Master Chorale are decking Disney Hall with musical delights; and on Sunday, Los Angeles Opera unveiled its offering: a light-hearted, cartoon-bright rendition of Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of ...

There is a collective sigh of pleasure, then a giggle. Katharina Thalbach has given the Deutsche Oper audience just what it wanted.

That reality was reinforced Sunday afternoon with the debut performance by the Baltimore Opera Theatre before a modest, appreciative, audience at the Hippodrome.

A drunken soldier and a music teacher, both courting a young lady and neither who he pretends to be.

BUSY to the point of bursting, Scottish Opera's vigorous co-production with the NBR New Zealand Opera of Rossini's shining comic opera at the Festival Theatre is a captivating yet strangely disconcerting affair.

Michael Dailey as Don Ramiro and Betany Coffland as Cinderella in the fall 2009 Opera San Jose production of La Cenerentola.

Joyce DiDonato Since I am always interested in how to think of an evening's program as a journey in its entirety, I was delighted to see that Joyce DiDonato explicitly declared the structural strategy of her San Francisco Performances recital last night in Herbst Theatre with accompanist John Churchwell.

Joyce Di Donato's Colbran, the Muse follows much the same recital-as-biography format as Cecilia Bartoli's Maria Malibran disc,though the arias are exclusively by Rossini and the orchestra is exclusively modern instruments.There are some gems here a touching reading of Desdemona's prayer, "Dehcalma, o ciel, nel sonno" from Otello, and a cameo ...