The Rossini Festival returns to Downtown Knoxville this weekend, but for Knoxville Opera, it’s about more than just the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Knoxville Opera Rossini Festival returns to the Scruffy City on April 18 and 19. The free event ...

The Rossini Festival is Knoxville Opera’s annual international street fair, and Saturday it returned to Market Square. 6 News ...

Known as one of the great opera composers, famous for The Barber of Seville, Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy and for the past forty-one years, his beachside hometown on the Adriatic has ...

Opera Southwest offers the New Mexico premiere of the composer's Biblical epic as its final 2025-2026 production.

Who says that Cinderella needs a pair of glass slippers? In 1817, when Gioachino Rossini penned an opera drawn from the fairy tale, the Italian composer did not include the heroine’s famous footwear.

If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

Opera Wire has reported that The Rossini Opera Festival, which was previously set for November 1 through November 29, will now open on November 14, due to Italy's closure of theaters. Read the full ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Rossini’s timeless romantic comedy Cinderella, transporting audiences to a world of enchantment from January 21 to February 10, 2024. Considered one of his finest ...

Wagner College Opera will present Cinderella, weaving together scenes from operatic and musical theatre interpretations, ...

The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de ...