Three opera icons stepped onto the stage during Friday's opening ceremony. Each of them are more than 200 years old ...

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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 ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” is a peculiar score, both as a 19th-century Mass and as a work of Rossini’s. One of Rossini’s few large works that was not written for the opera house, it has ...