— The bringing out of Verdi’s Othello at the Paris Opéra, and the final closing up of the restaurant Magny, — both important events of the late autumn of 1894, — have stranded safely from the ebb tide ...

Some authorities believe that Rossini always intended Guillaume Tell to be his final opera – that the attractions of early retirement at the age of 37 were too much to resist. Others maintain that it ...

After finishing his comic opera “Le comte Ory” in 1828, Rossini had begun working on a new project. “Guillaume Tell,” or ...

If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of Rossini's death, Tom Service salutes the opera composer who was a celebrity in his own time, whose music was whistled in the street. A colourful, jovial character, ...

Rossini’s third serious opera is a rarity not for the quality of its score but because it’s such a challenge to produce. Its heroine is an enchantress, so the stage directions inevitably require ...

Rossini’s copious and largely forgotten piano music includes 13 volumes of Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of old age), written in his final decade long after he’d ceased composing operas. These salon-like ...

On July 16, 2016, conductor Will Crutchfield will take up his baton to conduct the American premiere of Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira at Caramoor. With a wave of his hand, he will ...