Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.

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 ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Resonance Works will present Gioachino Rossini's ...

Tenor Andrew Morstein, baritone Sejin Park, soprano Laura Corina Sanders, baritone Andy Papas and mezzo-soprano Kelly Guerra Credit: Photo by Pin Lim When the opera’s overture is as zippy and bubbly ...

Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera 4 Video: Lisette Oropesa Sings Act II Aria From I ...

Gioachino Rossini is like a train conductor, constantly propelling the movement forward. Opera Southwest will accelerate that rhythm in the composer’s “L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a ...

Knoxville Opera’s 18th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair is hitting the streets of Downtown Knoxville on Saturday, April 13. A “legacy event,” as described by Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...

This image released by Opera Philadelphia shows, from left, tenor Toffer Mihalka, tenor Lawrence Brownlee and bass-baritone Christian Pursell during a performance of "Otello." (Steven Pisano/Opera ...

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 ...