Ah, Rossini! He never wrote a melody that he didn’t use over and over again. A bit of a thieving magpie, he borrowed freely from his own work and anyone else whom he admired. The overture to “The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Librettist Ferretti removed the magical elements from the tale of Cinderella, La Cenerentola, to allow opera composer Gioachino Rossini to soften his opera buffa, but there’s more than enough fairy ...

OperaDelaware celebrates the 225th anniversary of the birth of Gioachino Rossini with festival performances this Saturday and Sunday and next weekend. Legend has it that in 1822 a young and wildly ...

In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, introduce Rossini's musical version of the story of the wily barber and his efforts ...