Onion River Chorus The Onion River Chorus, conducted by Artistic Director Richard Riley, will perform Gioachino Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Unitarian Church ...

In a letter to his mother from May 1817 sent from Naples, Gioachino Rossini asked her to send the poet Gaetano Rossi a libretto she would find in a trunk. It was the libretto of 'Laurina ...

Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast of singers in favourite arias duets and choruses from operas by Rossini Donizetti and Puccini along with the thrilling finale of Bizets Carmen Italian baritone ...

Gioachino Rossini is like a train conductor, constantly propelling the movement forward. Opera Southwest will accelerate that rhythm in the composer’s “L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a ...

Ciro in Babilonia-- Back when Rossini was only 20, opera composers were expected to turn out works on a biblical theme for Lent. So his fourth professional opera, performed in 1812, took on the tale ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), the ridiculously successful composer who wrote 39 operas including of “The Barber of Seville,” retired after his final opera, “William Tell,” in 1829 — at the age of 37.