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REMEMBER Dorothy's exclamation to her little dog Toto in the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz?" "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," she said as the two emerged from the tornado-transported farmhouse into the magical Technicolor of Oz.

Rossini's "La Cenerentola," or "Cinderella," sets the fairy tale to music. It's a classic.

There's a whole generation of pop culture junkies who can trace their knowledge of Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa 'The Barber of Seville' to cartoons.

The Italian Girl in Algiers, with Tiziano Bracci as Mustafa and Karen Cargill as Isabella.

OperaDelaware has lots of fun with Gioachino Rossini's comedy of connivance and deceit, "The Barber of Seville." Fine ensemble singing and solid orchestral support combine with well-paced direction to make for a lively and funny performance.

Yeghishe Manucharyan as Amenaide's conflicted, marriage-arranging, pregnant-lady-executing father, with Ewa Podles as Tancredi.

Amanda Forsythe with the Polish contralto Ewa Podles. Opera Boston introduced its compelling new production of Rossini's rarely heard opera "Tancredi'' last night at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C - a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.

Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C - a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.

Opera Boston ignited it's new, star-studded season with vocal fireworks, as contralto, Ewa Podles, opera's velvet foghorn, appeared in Rossini's early masterwork Tancredi.

OPERA BOSTON The remarkable Polish contralto Ewa Podles makes her local stage debut in Rossini's "Tancredi,'' directed by Kristine McIntyre and conducted by Gil Rose.

ROSSINI was only 21 when he wrote The Italian Girl in Algiers, a heady will-they-won't-they saga centred on the love life of the rich and powerful Mustafa, a story ripe for modernisation.

Glasgow's East End is not known for cradling opera stars, but tonight Thomas Walker breaks the mould, taking the stage in Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers , one of Scottish Opera's biggest productions of this season.

By Kenneth Walton THERE have been times in Scottish Opera's troubled past where its real-life shenanigans could so easily have come straight out of soap opera.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato Joyce DiDonato is no stranger to San Francisco. She was a "Merolina" in the summer of 1997; and the following year she performed in the Schwabacher Debut Recital Series.

Ewa Podles, here at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, finally makes her Boston operatic stage debut this week in Rossini's "Tancredi.'' When Ewa Podles sings, people listen.

This esteemed presenter of vocal-music events celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's poet laureate and a towering figure in 19th-century literature.

One of the world's most sought-after sopranos is coming to town to star in the concert gala launching the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's 2008-09 season.

Gioachino Rossini composed Il barbiere di Siviglia in a mere thirteen days. The libretto was adapted by Cesare Sterbini from Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Sville .

Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez made the NY Times front page last year by instantly reprising the most perilous aria in "Daughter of the Regiment," hitting all nine high C's not once, but twice in a row.