Sarasota Opera will open Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville on Saturday, Feb. 22. One of the most beloved comic operas ...

Sarasota Opera presents both Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" and Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," which are rarely ...

Sarasota Opera opens a new season with the double bill of one acts ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ and ‘Pagliacci’ to launch its 66th season.

Rossini’s opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play, is performed in Lausanne for the first time. With Jean-Sébastien Bou in the title role and Luigi De Donato in that of the Governor. On a bright ...

Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast of singers in favourite arias, duets and choruses from operas by Rossini and Puccini, along with the thrilling finale of Bizet’s Carmen. Show more Antonio ...

If opera is about heightened emotions – love ... The finale of Act 1 is a comic ensemble, in which Rossini manages to convey the characters’ individual and collective bafflement.

Here Donizetti devoured the scores of his idol Rossini (who was only five years older), determined to be another opera composer in the same mould. So his first opera, Enrico di Borgogna (1818) and the ...

For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and ...