Knoxville Opera’s 18th annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair is hitting the streets of Downtown Knoxville on Saturday, April 13. A “legacy event,” as described by Knoxville Mayor Madeline ...

While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Resonance Works will present Gioachino Rossini's rarely-performed La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) at the Charity Randall Theatre on Friday, June 28, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 30, ...

On Cendrillon, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. But Cendrillon is not a children’s opera. Musically and structurally it behaves like other topflight Rossini comic operas, with scintillating ensembles ...

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.