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.

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 ...

Nickel City Opera will present Gioachino Rossini's comic opera 'The Barber of Seville' with full orchestra, costumes, and sets returning for the second year to Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...