— 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 ...

In a letter to his mother from May 1817 sent from Naples, Gioachino Rossini asked her to send the poet Gaetano Rossi a libretto she would find in a trunk. It was the libretto of 'Laurina ...

‘Largo al factotum’ is the spectacular entrance music for Figaro, the famous barber character in Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville. As the aria is the audience’s first introduction to the ...

Gioacchino Rossini, the great opera composer, was also a great gourmand. In fact, the man behind The Barber of Seville retired from composition when he was just 37 and spent the rest of his life -- ...

François Couperin was one of the baroque era’s greatest keyboard composers. Did he write any orchestral music? Er, no. Though listen to a few minutes of Hugo Reyne’s version of his trio sonata “La ...

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics was memorable, with Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, and a host of world-class athletes taking center stage on Friday night. They weren’t the only ones to ...

This beachfront festival, devoted to a beloved native son, may be the world’s most seductively charming annual opera event. By Larry Wolff PESARO, Italy — The collapse of Italy’s governmental ...