Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Put on an opera about regime change and there is always likely to be some topical reference to hand. The imminent ...

3 TOSCA to Launch Opera-in-Concert Series at Carnegie Hall With Marina Rebeka and Jonas Kaufmann This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance-its first in nearly 25 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - When Elizabeth DeShong comes onstage and sings her bravura opening aria in Rossini’s “Semiramide,” audiences at the Metropolitan Opera may be scratching their heads trying to recall ...

Just as we lavish praise upon the Metropolitan Opera for truly superior work, such as the splendid music drama that is in their current production of Wagner’s Parsifal, we need to admit that on a less ...

In fact much of Rossini’s repertoire, both comic and tragic, fell out of favour worldwide from about the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, partly as a disappearance of such star lead sopranos ...

Questions about how OperaDelaware would follow up their 2016 smash Spring Festival were forcefully answered Saturday night, when company unveiled its exhilarating and riveting production of Gioachino ...

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon. The opera ...

00:01, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Updated: 16:16, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Indeed, this is its first appearance at Covent Garden for more than a century, but the Opera House has assembled a superb cast of singers for ...

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Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens Semiramide Queen of Babylon defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy successor to her late husband But she harbours more than ...