Gioacchino Rossini

City of West Hollywood Presents Free Theatre in the Parks: Pacific Opera Project's CINDERELLA STORY

The City of West Hollywood has announced Free Theatre in the Parks with Pacific Opera Project's mashup opera of Jules Massenet and Gioacchino Rossini’s CINDERELLA.

New York Festival of Song to Release NYFOS Records: 'THE SINGLES, VOL. 1'

On Friday, March 8, 2024, New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will release an album drawn from its archives, NYFOS Records: The Singles, Vol. 1 featuring guest artists performing together with pianist and NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier on NYFOS Records. Learn more here!

Soprano Hera Hyesang Park's New Album BREATHE Out Now

Soprano Hera Hyesang Park released new album, 'Breathe,' featuring operatic classics and contemporary works. Joined by mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo and the Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice. Watch the new music video featuring Park freediving. Out now on Deutsche Grammophon.

A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute At UNCSA Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Gala Concert

The A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special gala concert featuring Fletcher alumni, current Fellows, the UNCSA Cantata Singers, and the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in a program of selections from operatic favorites including “Don Giovanni,” “La cenerentola,” “L'elisir d'amore” and “Eugene Onegin.”

Singapore's Lirica Arts Presents Rossini's L'INGANNO FELICE

Lirica Arts Singapore presents its inaugural fully staged opera with Gioacchino Rossini's highly acclaimed one-act masterpiece L'inganno Felice (The Blissful Deception) on the 5th and 6th March 2022 at the NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre. This Singapore premiere is the local opera society's second public performance, after its sold-out debut NO TENORS ALLOWED, a recital of soprano-baritone duets presented in September 2021.

BWW Feature: Streaming Opera For The Week Of September 13 - 20, 2021

Los Angeles Opera presents its 2006 rendition of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The performers are Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, and Renato Bruson, James Conlon conducts and Marta Domingo directs.LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZywmSJkKYE&t=83s

VIDEOS: CCM's Streaming Series Continues With Spring Opera Gala Concerts

Originally broadcast on June 17 and 18, both concerts are now available for on-demand viewing. Watch excerpts here!

IL VIAGGIO A REIMS Will Be Performed at Bolshoi This Week

This production features a libretto by Luigi Balocchi based on the novel 'Corinne, ou L'Italie' by Germaine de Staël.

VIDEO: CCM's Streaming Series Continues With Spring Opera Gala Concerts

The concerts are now available for on-demand viewing. Check out excerpts from the performances ehre!

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra To Receive Two Online Performances This Season

On 1/23, at 7:30 pm MT, Bailey and members of the Boulder Philharmonic will premiere the chamber version of the concerto as part of an online event that will be available on demand through February 6. On Sunday, March 28, at 3 pm PT, a performance by Bailey and the Santa Rosa Symphony led by its music director, Francesco Lecce-Chong, will premier.

Sarasota Opera Announces Changes to 2021 Winter Opera Festival

Sarasota Opera announced a redesigned 2021 Winter/Spring Opera Festival that will include two operas that feature a smaller cast and orchestra to be presented in February and March, and a second two-opera season in April, both to a well-spaced audience and limited capacity.

Wolf Trap Opera 2020 Artists Begin Summer Residency Program, Featuring Onsite Training, Coaching and More

On June 30 Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts welcomed the Wolf Trap Opera Summer 2020 residency program cohort consisting of 18 Filene Artists, 17 Studio Artists and five Fellows. They joined Wolf Trap Opera (WTO) from across the country and around the globe for six weeks of operatic study and training.

Wolf Trap Opera 2020 Artists Begin Summer Residency

On June 30 Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts welcomed the Wolf Trap Opera Summer 2020 residency program cohort consisting of 18 Filene Artists, 17 Studio Artists and five Fellows.

BWW Feature: NEDERLANDSE REISOPERA (DUTCH NATIONAL TOURING OPERA) BRINGS ITS SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION OF THE BARBER OF SEVILLE BACK TO THEATRES

Thanks to its enormous success in 2013, we bring you a revival of Rossini's comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Laurence Dale and with a cast that includes Karin Strobos (Rosina), Mark Milhofer (Almaviva) and Brun Praticò (Bartolo). George Petrou is the musical director, conducting the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. With colourful Gaudi-style decors and spectacular costumes by designer Gary McCann, this flamboyant, sparkling and enchanting Barber production is a must-see

Noseda Returns To Carnegie Hall With ROSSINI'S STABAT MATER

Gianandrea Noseda Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) will bring the Orchestra to Carnegie Hall for their first concert together in New York, performing an Italian-themed program that includes Rossini's rarely-performed Stabat Mater and Liszt's thrilling Dante Symphony, Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 2:00PM. Noseda, who earlier this season was extended as NSO Music Director through the 2024-25 season, concludes his second season with the NSO leading an international program highlighted by at the Kennedy Center, June 6, 8, and 9, 2019. This summer, Noseda will lead the NSO at Wolf Trap in July, returns to Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival in August, and inaugurates his position as music director of the newly-launched Tsinandali Festival and Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra in the Republic of Georgia this summer.

Boston Ballet School Presents 10th Annual Next Generation Performance

Boston Ballet School (BBS) presents the 10th annual Next Generation performance showcasing elite young dancers of Boston Ballet II and Boston Ballet School with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. The program includes a new work by Principal Dancer Lia Cirio, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Konservatoriet and William Tell pas de deux by August Bournonville. Les Passages opens the program, choreographed by BBS Faculty, showcasing the Pre-Professional Program. The one-night-only performance takes place May 22 at the Citizens Bank Opera House.

Repertoire Confirmed For 68th Wexford Festival Opera

As preparations for the 2019 Festival continue, Artistic Director of Wexford Festival Opera, David Agler, has confirmed a change to one of the main evening operas.  Dorilla in Tempe by Antonio Vivaldi will replace the previously announced Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.

Seattle Opera Unveils 2019/20 Season

With a mix of new and traditional takes on opera, Seattle Opera unveils a 2019/20 Season that offers something for everyone. Audiences will experience new-to-Seattle productions of Rigoletto, Cinderella, and Eugene Onegin; the company premiere of Charlie Parker's Yardbird; and the return of a beloved classic, La boh me.

Wexford Festival Opera Announces Dates And Main Evening Operas For 2019

Wexford Festival Opera announced today the three main evening operas

BWW Review: LA CENERENTOLA at JUDY Bayley Theatre

Cinderella has fled the royal ball having left her bracelet with the Prince as a remembrance. On June 8, 23018, Opera Las Vegas presented a jubilant version of Gioacchino Rossini's LA CENERENTOLA (CINDERELLA) in Las Vegas at the University of Nevada's Judy Bayley Theatre. Director Audrey Chait injected some form of comedy, often slapstick, into every possible situation and the result was an evening of one laugh after another.