It is possible to go through a musical lifetime without once coming upon a live performance of such operas as Princess Ida, Rusalka, The Trojans, Mosè, and Tiefland. Indeed, most listeners know these ...

Gioachino Rossini retired from composing opera at age 37 after composing 39 operas, some of which remain the most popular operas on the planet even today. You know his music even if you’re not (yet) ...

'Opera would be absolutely perfect," said Giachino Rossini one day while cooking a gourmet meal in his Paris mansion. "If only we could get rid of those damned singers." Rossini died on Nov 13, 1868, ...

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 ...