Freebie of the week: Some people keep saying jazz music is dead, but there are a lot of signs to the contrary. One hundred ...

In the week when an Arts Council England report lambasted the current state of opera and questioned its relevance to wider society, Charles Court Opera’s The Barber Of Seville stands as a stern rebuff ...

Even if you think you don’t like opera, you’ve probably hummed tunes from “The Barber of Seville.” The music has appeared in everything from Looney Tunes cartoons to episodes of “Seinfeld” and “The ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

When Gioachino Rossini premiered his opera “The Barber of Seville” in Rome on Feb. 20, 1816, everything that could go wrong went wrong. A string snapped on a singer’s guitar as he began playing.

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE MUSIC BY GIOACHINO ROSSINI The Master Matchmaker Returns in a New Vision From Director Matthew Ozawa This spring, live opera returns to the Bay Area with an outdoor, drive-in ...

Opera lovers, take note: If you’ve been trying to introduce friends and loved ones to opera, this is your chance. The next production in the 2018-2019 season of Michigan Opera Theatre is a classic ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago launched its 65th season on Saturday night with a laugh. Quite a few of them, actually, thanks to a wickedly funny, elegantly sung, cleverly directed production of Rossini’s ...

It may come as a surprise, but “The Barber of Seville” we know and love wasn’t the first opera with this title. Similarly adapted from Pierre Beaumarchais’ French play of the same name, composers ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the Frenchman who penned the plays The Barber of Seville and The Marriage ...

Opera lovers, take note: If you’ve been trying to introduce friends and loved ones to opera, this is your chance. The next production in the 2018-2019 season of Michigan Opera Theatre is a classic ...