With a benefit concert to help fight cancer featuring 'Lady Louie,' a visit from a Grammy Award-winning Latin singer, an ...

A music review by Shirley Politzer When a master of storytelling, like Gioachino Rossini, composes choral music that speaks ...

From heartfelt performances to lively fairs. Jazz, classical, fairs, fiestas, circus, dance, food, and wine festivals fill ...

Glyndebourne always sets itself impeccably high standards and this year opened its Festival with a superbly faultless and ...

If you think of the classical music season as running from September to May, you’re missing out on some fine opportunities to enjoy spectacular sounds in the more casual settings that summer affords.

Opera buffa is an ever-popular genre of the art, and more than two centuries after its composition, Rossini's Il barbière di Siviglia remains one this genre's most often staged operas. The music and ...

This may be a long opera but the overarching gravity of the performance keeps you gripped to your seat forgetting how much ...

In 1775, Beaumarchais created Figaro, the Almavivas, Bartolo and the rest in his play Le Barbier de Séville at the court of ...

A Razor-sharp Barber at Glorious Glyndebourne Perfection is an elusive commodity. But tonight’s season-opening production of ...

Jack Swanson will make his Metropolitan Opera debut. The American tenor has become one of the most in demand for his work in ...

It will open with Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, described as “a whirlwind of bustling brilliance and comedic flair” – before Martin takes centre stage for Spohr’s clarinet concerto No.

His legacy was celebrated with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro featuring several operas and a rare performance of Messa per Rossini, a tribute composed by Verdi and others to honour Rossini's ...