Inventive staging of Rossini's 'Cinderella' gets lots of laughs for Opera Tampa

Two hundred years after its debut, the satirical edge in Cinderella still feels fresh. Gioachino Rossini's opera throws out ...
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ROHM to present Rossini’s comic opera, L’Inganno Felice

Muscat: The Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) continues its collaboration with the Rossini Opera Festival in presenting a series of one-act comic operas by the great nineteenth-century Italian composer, ...
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Rossini’s Comic ‘L’Italiana in Algeri' at the Metropolitan Opera

With a colorful set, visual comedy, and bouncy score, “L’Italiana in Algeri” has been a crowd-pleaser at the Met since 1973. NEW YORK—The Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production of Rossini’s “L'Italiana in ...
Chicago Tribune

Riffing on Rossini, Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’ started as a South Side Chicago comic opera. But its creators had bigger ideas.

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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Rossini’s comic ‘Le Comte Ory’ a triumph at Lyric Opera of Chicago

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Michigan State University

Puccini’s tragedy and Rossini’s farce pair up for Operas of Consequence and Comedy

The MSU College of Music closes its Worthington Family Foundation Opera Theatre Season with a compelling double bill of Italian opera, Puccini and Rossini: Operas of Consequence and Comedy, in the ...