Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances. Donors love it for its vocal gymnastics, memorable arias and sparkling melodies. Receptive newcomers like it because of its delightful ...

The folks at OTSL have maintained their good graces with the Man Up There: the predicted rain-storm held off until everyone had gotten safely home after the show. So there was plenty of gourmet ...

There’s an opera hidden inside Houston Grand Opera’s Resilience Theater at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Can you find it? It’s a masterpiece; that’s a certainty. It’s also wickedly funny.

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The Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra continues its 83rd season on Saturday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. with a virtual concert entitled “Movements in Time.” The program includes Rossini’s capricious Barber of ...

Ludwig van Beethoven had a visitor. A young man stepped into the legendary composer’s attic apartment in Vienna. He was introduced as Gioachino Rossini. “Ah ...

The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de ...

In this sparkling production of The Barber of Seville, director Josh Shaw married Rossini’s glorious music to some sensational gender masquerade. Alexander Elliott cut an enviable Figaro, Cassandra ...