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 ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.

William Tell is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell, which, in ...

“La Cenerentola” is the second-most often performed Rossini opera, with “The Barber Of Seville” being a runaway No. 1. At the Los Angeles Opera, it’s made regular reappearances in 13-year intervals: ...

Comedies are like souffles. You can put in all the right ingredients, but without that extra magic touch that makes the one rise and the other sparkle, you wind up with a bowl of eggs and cheese.

LoftOpera's recent Bushwick performance was as glorious as the New York Phil's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' was a thudding flop. LoftOpera performs Rossini’s Le Comte Ory at The Muse in Brooklyn.

The coastal Italian resort of Pesaro is one of those places with views of two seas. There’s the invitingly warm water of the Adriatic, which is separated from the land by a sea of beach umbrellas.