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 ...

Like sands in the hourglass, Isabella’s world turns in the LSU Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s soapy comic opera, “L’Italiania in Algeri.” The show opens on Thursday, in LSU’s Claude L.

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 ...

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by mezzo-soprano, Liora Grodnikaite for an exploration of some of the workings of Rossini's opera buffa - comic opera - style, focusing on ...

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As with so many comic operas, “The Barber of Seville” is marked by a plot brimming with false identities and improbable twists and turns. The music by Giacomo Rossini is, however, glorious; and if you ...

Finally. After 183 years, an opera by the composer of the masterful "The Barber of Seville" is just now having its Met Opera premiere. Rossini's comic "Le Comte Ory," his next-to-last creation, proves ...

The Italians had a lot going on in the 1500s. A century that started with Leonardo da Vinci painting the “Mona Lisa” ended with the invention of opera by a coterie of composers in Venice. Between them ...

I've always seen Opera as the Olympics of the vocal world: All those truly amazing things that singers do on stage! Well, last night I saw Union Avenue Opera's production of BARBER OF SEVILLE--and I ...