In Act Two, Rossini serves up a brilliant quintet when Selim and Zaida meet up with Narciso and Fiorilla — who are disguised as Selim and Zaida — while the helplessly lovesick Geronio looks on with ...

Rossini's "The Turk in Italy" is an opera about writer's block. It's about a poet looking for a subject for an opera libretto. He has a hard time getting started, and so does the opera. As the drunk ...

The vibrantly coloured costumes and inventive staging of the 1950s Italian seaside setting was as aesthetically pleasing as I remembered. Phillips’s Aussie-lingo infused surtitles again generated ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Everyone needs a little Rossini in their life. That is to say not just the music, but also a few clever fools, romantic escapades and exquisite ensembles. Surely, everyone could ...