Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" with Mary Hoskins as Berta, left, Maria Kataeva as Rosina, Renato Girolami as ...

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 ...

High spirits return for the holidays in the Met’s family-friendly, English-language, two-hour adaptation of one of opera’s most winning comedies. Bartlett Sher’s effervescent production of Rossini’s ...

Central City Opera has announced the cast and artistic team for its upcoming production of Rossini's beloved comedy, The Barber of Seville. The star-studded cast of this production features a host of ...

Among the many reasons “The Barber of Seville” opera is hugely popular worldwide, here are three: Its music is instantly familiar, thanks to its usage in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Rabbit of Seville ...

A taped performance of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York will be screened twice on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts.

The opera is a comedic masterpiece filled with wit, slapstick humor, and clever dialogue. Its comic elements are timeless and continue to entertain audiences of all ages. Rossini's score is packed ...

Ludwig van Beethoven had a visitor. A young man stepped into the legendary composer’s attic apartment in Vienna. He was introduced as Gioachino Rossini. “Ah ...

During rehearsals of Calgary Opera’s The Barber of Seville, Adam Lau managed to get a laugh from the cast and crew with an unscripted bit of comedy. The Chinese-American bass, who is performing the ...

Charleston Opera Theater (COT) is thrilled to present Gioachino Rossini’s exuberant comic masterpiece, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville), on March 27 and March 29 at the College of ...

Love may drive the plot of "The Barber of Seville," but as an early line in Gioachino Rossini's comic opera notes, "Money works wonders." So it is for the characters and their actions, where almost ...