On Cendrillon, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. But Cendrillon is not a children’s opera. Musically and structurally it behaves like other topflight Rossini comic operas, with scintillating ensembles ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Those impacted by the government shutdown have the opportunity to receive complimentary tickets to Virginia Opera’s upcoming production of the classic “Cinderella” in one of ...

Hugh “The Mad Bavarian” Bernreuter maintained his focus, going 8-2 in his Week 7 Saginaw-area high school football predictions. It wasn’t easy, thanks to the controversy swirling around the Super Bowl ...

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...

Opera Philadelphia’s 50th-season opener, Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims,” performed over the past two weekends at the Academy of Music, was appropriately tongue-in-cheek. Anthony Roth Costanzo, who ...

Stairway to happiness: Deepa Johnny as Cinderella; Grace Durham as Tisbe; Isabelle Peters as Clorinda All this palaver of spectacle and movement – with the ball itself cleverly choreographed by ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

A Peruvian-born international star, he made a specialty of roles in operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Mozart, becoming one of their pre-eminent interpreters. By Jonathan Kandell Luigi Alva, the ...

The Italians had a lot going on in the 1500s. A century that started with Leonardo da Vinci painting the “Mona Lisa” ended with the invention of opera by a coterie of composers in Venice. Between them ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

This spring, the Met presents a pair of masterpieces that define operatic comedy: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Featuring some of today’s most dynamic young stars ...