Last Saturday I returned from my early errands to find a mid-morning message on the phone from my uncle, who by happy coincidence also lives in Ithaca, New York a few miles from my house.: ...

Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists ... paid for by those who can afford it. Rossini’s Barber of Seville is packed with showstoppers; but when did we last see it cast at such ...

Gioachino Rossini is one of history's best-loved opera composers, and his overtures are the perfect place to get a flavour of them. Find out why with our guide to his best ones! You can't get very far ...

That is precisely what took place at the Civic Opera House Saturday night, when Lyric Opera presented the Chicago premiere of Rossini`s ”Tancredi,” in a new production based on the critical ...

A music review by Shirley Politzer When a master of storytelling, like Gioachino Rossini, composes choral music that speaks of struggles, oppression, joy, freedom and peace, those ideas resonate with ...