Rossini News

Maometto II by Rossini - Monday, June 10 JUST off the M40 in Buckinghamshire, the Wormsley Estate, home to Garsington Opera, looked lush and magnificent on a somewhat dull summer evening.

A new production of Tannhuser opened in early May at the Rheinoper in Dsseldorf.

The Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra finished the 2012-13 season by showcasing two of the ensembles of the orchestra's expansive program as well as a guest vocal soloist and a winner of the GPYO-sponsored concerto competition, all part of the opening concert of this year's Princeton Festival.

Gioacchino Rossini, an Italian opera composer who died in 1868, said, "One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time."

Songs by Canteloube, Copland, FaurA©, Ives, Mahler, Pasatieri, Poulenc, SchA nberg, R. Strauss; Katz, piano.

Premiered in Naples in 1820, Rossini 's opera about the siege of Negroponte by the Turkish sultan Mehmet II soon disappeared from the stage, to be replaced by the composer's own more successful French revision of the piece as Le SiA ge de Corinthe.

Aria aficionados are in for a treat this summer with screenings of some of the greatest operas of all time at Jersey Opera House.

Experience The Chilterns Nine guided walks over the three days led by expert guides.

Opera singer Michael Spyres, from Mansfield, had an unexpected early debut as Rodrigo in Rossini's "La donna del lago" at the Royal Opera House in London, alongside Joyce diDonato and Juan Diego Florez.

Starting Sunday, June 23, the Met's Summer HD Encore performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series will be shown at Palace Cineplex, Odeon Cineplex and Palace Multiplex on Sundays only at 11:30 a.m. The shows run until August 11. Each opera will play only once and there will be no live performances, nor showings at Carib 5. The encores are ... (more)

The Sussex County Youth Orchestras invite the community to their annual spring concert to be held Sunday at 3 p.m., at Sparta High School's Performing Arts Auditorium.

FIGARO'S WEDDING by Mozart, adapted and directed by Joel Ivany, musical direction by Christopher Mokrzewski, with Stephen Hegedus, Miriam Khalil, Teiya Kasahara, Lisa DiMaria and Alexander Dobson.

Muscat: The Royal Opera House Muscat announced a diverse season filled with more big names in music and dance as well as some returning favourites.

Two pizza delivery employees at Papa John's learned you never know when you'll accidentally dial a customer--and leave a racist voicemail that gets you fired.

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra once again joins forces with Full Sail University to present the second "Symphony in HD: Live at Full Sail University," a high-tech concert gala that benefits the orchestra.

"Oh my God! I've done the opera for 14 seasons!" said Doug Nagel, commenting on his decision to leave the Rimrock Opera.

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Michael O'Brien and John Millard, adapted from Beaumarchais and Rossini .

In Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake , the heroine is introduced as "a monument of Grecian arta <.a <.a <.a < the guardian Naiad of the strand" - an un-clichA©d portrait of Scottish beauty.

In the early 19th century, Sir Walter Scott promoted Scotland to the world, in what has arguably led to an enduring myth of what it means for the Scots to be culturally distinct from England.

The Barber of Seville , the fourth show of Soulpepper's 2013 season, opened this past Thursday at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.