ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The second New Mexico Premiere of our 43rd Season, Opera Southwest returns to Albuquerque. The popular and critically acclaimed exploration of the music of Rossini is what this ...

Rossini, king of Italian opera composition in the first half of the 19th century transformed the opera of his homeland with music of brilliance, sensuality and vitality. Il Turco, sizzling with ...

There’s no questioning the pedigree for this second revival of Rossini’s 'dramma buffo' in The Royal Opera‘s warm, colourful production. Four of the principals sang at the opening performances of Il ...

Chief comic attention-seeker was the brilliantly pitiable comb-overed cuckold Don Geronio (Geoffrey Dalton). You could trace the whole history of physical comedy in his anxious twists and turns, from ...

A lot of thought, of supplemental comic business and detail have been added to this Turco. But the remarkable thing is how additive the work and the ideas of director Mariame Clément and her creative ...

Mellifluously gifted and impossibly good-looking, the Italian bass (not bass-baritone – more on that later) Ildebrando D'Arcangelo is back in London to recreate the role of Selim in Rossini's comedy ...

When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and the husbands rage with jealousy. These may be silly ...

Chaucer’s Merchant was railing about his shrewish wife, and telling the tale of the rich old man who marries a woman decades his junior, in the late 1300s, and the basic story is found in even earlier ...