While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo’s mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.
Daniela Barcellona leads a live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
A live broadcast from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro
Only by knowing what went on around the great composers is it possible to truly understand why they are great and why their operas have come down to us (and why dozens of other titles have been left behind).
American soprano Gianna Rolandi died Sunday morning, according to a number of her friends and colleagues. She was 68.
“Trove Thursday” turns its Rossini-150 series to one of the composer’s least known but tastiest comic gems La Pietra del Paragone with Julia Hamari, Justino Diaz, Alessandro Corbelli, Claudio Desderi and Paolo Barbacini conducted by Roberto Abbado.
At “Trove Thursday” it’s May Night, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1880 comic opera, in a recent broadcast from Moscow led by pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev.
For her third solo recording, Olga Peretyatko summons the two men who launched her career less than a decade ago
Unlike Mozart, the young Gioacchino Rossini seldom let his ambitions strain relations with employers.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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