Director Joan Font's colorful take on the classic features hilarious stage action and surreal sets.
Watching a performance of Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville is akin to dropping the needle on a well-worn favorite record. It’s so familiar that it becomes a comforting background ...
Scott Purcell will mark his fifth time performing in a production of "The Barber of Seville" on Friday in the Manship Theatre. That's when Opera Louisiane opens its production of Gioachino Rossini's ...
In rehearsal with stage director Ben Robinson for L'Italiana in Algeri at Opera in the Heights. Credit: Photo by Eiki Isomura Combine a helter skelter libretto with a classic Rossini score complete ...
Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The piece premiered in March 1818 at Naples’ Teatro San Carlo, the longest continuously active opera company in ...
The Houston Grand Opera is presenting the comedic, mischievous "Barber of Seville" through May 10. State of the opera: ...
Just forget the glass slippers (they must have been excruciating to wear), and for goodness’ sake throw out that moldy pumpkin coach. Gioachino Rossini’s (1792-1868) “La Cenerentola,” though funny (it ...