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 ...

Irish National Opera's artistic director, Fergus Sheil, rediscovers the riches in Rossini’s final masterpiece, William Tell, which returns to the Irish stage this November after a 145 year hiatus, for ...

Google has doubled up on its Doodle today, celebrating both the 220th birthday of the Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini and also the leap year, via a quartet of leaping frogs in musical mode, ...

Cairo Opera Company performs Rossini's one-act opera L’inganno felice, a much needed refreshment for Egyptian audiences On Thursday 1 November and Sunday 2 November, soloists from the Cairo Opera ...

The international "Rossini Opera Festival," which has been held annually in August in Pesaro, Italy, will grace these shores for the first time this month. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), one of ...

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 ...

The Opera Show celebrates one of opera’s most prolific and well-loved opera composers – Rossini. We visit his birthplace, Pesaro on the Italian Adriatic coast where the Rossini Opera Festival is held ...

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 ...

'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, ...

Many turbulent events occurred in 1864: battles raged in the American Civil War, the Polish uprising was crushed, and Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to the Prussians after a brief but ...