Premieres nationwide Sunday, July 8 at 12:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues Sunday, July 8 on PBS (check local listings) with a rare Met ...

This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance-its first in nearly 25 years-with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star bel canto cast features Angela Meade in the title ...

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 ...

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 ...

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon. The opera ...

Scholarly opinion informs me that Semiramide is one of Rossini’s crowning achievements – his farewell to Italian opera, based on a tragedy by Voltaire, with a title role designed to show off the ...

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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 ...

00:01, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Updated: 16:16, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Indeed, this is its first appearance at Covent Garden for more than a century, but the Opera House has assembled a superb cast of singers for ...

Angela Meade sings an excerpt from the title character’s Act I aria, in which she proclaims her love for Arsace, whom she thinks loves her in return. Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met ...