Sometime around his fourth “The Barber of Seville,” Chicago-based operatic baritone Will Liverman realized he’d been hounded by the same “nugget of an idea” for years. That idea was inspired by the ...

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Like sands in the hourglass, Isabella’s world turns in the LSU Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s soapy comic opera, “L’Italiania in Algeri.” The show opens on Thursday, in LSU’s Claude L.

Nickel City Opera will present Gioachino Rossini's comic opera 'The Barber of Seville' with full orchestra, costumes, and sets returning for the second year to Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts ...

Il viaggio a Reims or The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Lilly is a comic opera, originally performed in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi. Rossini ...

Ménages a trois are rare sights on the stage of the Lyric Opera, but one makes an appearance in “Le Comte Ory,” the rather ribald comic opera from Gioachino Rossini, here to warm the cockles of ...

As with so many comic operas, “The Barber of Seville” is marked by a plot brimming with false identities and improbable twists and turns. The music by Giacomo Rossini is, however, glorious; and if you ...