“Pagliacci” may be best known for Canio’s first-act aria, but its sprightly overture is also instantly recognizable. The ...

Perfection is an elusive commodity. But tonight’s season-opening production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Glyndebourne on a glorious early summer’s evening was just that. Annabel Arden’s 2016 ...

Mac, as his middle school music teacher was affectionately known, would wrangle tickets to the opera, and the symphony, and the art museum, and the Broadway musical, for young Efrain Solis and his ...

Cast members perform in “The Barber of Seville,” which was staged June 20 and 22 in Bend. (Submitted photo) OperaBend’s opening night performance of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” ...

Washington state mezzo-soprano Grace Skinner plays Rosina in OperaBend's production of "The Barber of Seville." (Submitted photo) Music, laughter and romance get all rolled up into one when OperaBend ...

On Saturday at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines as the heroine Rosina alongside tenor Jack ...

Maine alternative opera group, Opera in the Pines, presents a modern twist with ‘The Barber of the Cape’ at the Cape Neddick Lobster Pound. Boston’s got opera. The city’s vibrant programming ranges ...

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 ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

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 ...

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