Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Rossini’s timeless romantic comedy Cinderella, transporting audiences to a world of enchantment from January 21 to February 10, 2024. Considered one of his finest ...

If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

Once you get over the shock that Shakespeare’s immortal masterpiece has been turned into a stereotypical Italian opera of the early 19th century, where minor character Rodrigo, now in love with ...

Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...

Gioachino Rossini retired from composing opera at age 37 after composing 39 operas, some of which remain the most popular operas on the planet even today. You know his music even if you’re not (yet) ...

Gioachino Rossini is like a train conductor, constantly propelling the movement forward. Opera Southwest will accelerate that rhythm in the composer’s “L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a ...