Knoxville Opera’s 18th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair is hitting the streets of Downtown Knoxville on Saturday, April 13. A “legacy event,” as described by Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...

For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.

Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette" and Rossini’s "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Met Opera. The Metropolitan Opera presents Gounod’s "Roméo et Juliette," in a new production directed by Bartlett Sher. It ...

First night booing is a fast-growing problem at Covent Garden. It doesn't happen elsewhere, not even ENO; just at the Royal Opera, where it’s become standard practice for the director of practically ...