New Opera Stories: Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" - This is not a "womanizing slapstick comedy"—it is a story about why people keep chasing what they cannot have.

The opera "Le Comte Ory." The final comic opera created by Gioachino Rossini during his time in France. Disguises. Seduction.
Houston Public Media

Opera Cheat Sheet: Rossini’s Armida

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Rinaldo ed il mago di Ascalona – Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give their ...
BBC

Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera

Donald Macleod conducts a whistle-stop tour through two centuries and more of Italian opera, from Monteverdi to Rossini. We open with opera in its infancy, as Donald explores the origins of the form ...

New Opera Stories: Rossini's "The Lady of the Lake" - This is not a "love story between a king and a maiden"—it was a story about choosing the one you love an…

A pioneer of Romantic opera, presented by Gioachino Rossini in 1819. A lake. A battle. Love. Social status. And a choice. The ...
JSTOR

More Than an Aria Written Over Rice: Rediscovering a Lost Rossini Opera

On July 16, 2016, conductor Will Crutchfield will take up his baton to conduct the American premiere of Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira at Caramoor. With a wave of his hand, he will ...
The Conversation

Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini’s opera, Otello

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 ...
NPR

A Fairytale Grows Up: Rossini's 'La Cenerentola'

In the opera's final scene, Cinderella (mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich) is left to decide the fate of her abusive family. She forgives them, then sings the spectacular aria 'Non piu mesta' — 'No longer ...