Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

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 ...

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), an ebullient, easygoing man, wrote 39 operas, and stopped at the age of 37 with the explanation that he was “too lazy” to compose any more. Because his operas ...

IN BETWEEN Mozart and Rossini operas (as Zerlina in “Don Giovanni” and Rosina in “Barber of Seville”), American mezzo-soprano Karin Mushegain decided it would do no harm to reach out to wider ...

HOW do you solve a problem like Gioacchino Rossini? It is a fact that when some opera lovers saw the programme for the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival, they rolled their eyes and turned to the ...

ENGLISH Touring Opera is staging only two operas for its 2018 spring tour because of financial cuts and has added as its third offering a concert of Rossini’s dramatic arias instead. Devised for four ...

This year's 29 th of February was the 232 th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's birth (1792-1868). Born in a leap year Rossini celebrated his birthday only once every four years. His legacy was ...

'Opera would be absolutely perfect," said Giachino Rossini one day while cooking a gourmet meal in his Paris mansion. "If only we could get rid of those damned singers." Rossini died on Nov 13, 1868, ...

Donald Macleod looks at the winning formula of Rossini's early operas, presenting five takes on his life and music. Rossini had the good fortune to learn his craft not from a course of dry academic ...