The opera "Semiramide." The final Italian opera composed by Gioachino Rossini in 1823, and one of his greatest masterpieces.

Concert opera companies often end up specializing in a form of opera akin to an athletic event: The focus is turned from the drama onto the physical feat of producing the sound. The Washington Concert ...

First performed in Venice in 1823, Rossini's Semiramide was once famously called the last and most beautiful of the great baroque operas. The description is in some respects inaccurate: later Italian ...

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 ...

Outstanding performances by Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Daniela Barcellona illuminate David Alden’s occasionally cluttered vision of this Rossini rarity Rossini’s great 1823 tragedy, his ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Marilyn Horne news every morning. It can be hard to take Semiramide seriously. Audiences in Venice in 1823, when Rossini’s last opera ...

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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 ...

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Semiramide was Rossini’s last opera for the Italian stage and his longest. With a running time of three and a half hours, it is a piece no theatre is going to stage without cuts. When the New York Met ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Naxos’s Rossini opera series, mostly recorded live at the “Rossini in Wildbad” festival in Germany, is building ...