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Wexford Festival Opera - watch Rossini's L'equivoco stravagante

We proudly present a live presentation from this year's Wexford Festival Opera - L'equivoco stravagante by Gioachino Rossini, ...

New Opera Stories: Rossini's "Semiramide" - This is not a "tragedy of an ancient queen"—it is a story about how hidden sins never disappear, eventually consuming …

The opera "Semiramide." The final Italian opera composed by Gioachino Rossini in 1823, and one of his greatest masterpieces.

Wexford Festival Opera 2026: L’Equivoco Stravagante review – Maria Barakova is remarkable in a production that hardly misses a trick

Rossini was just 19 when he wrote the soon banned Bizarre Misunderstanding, with its critique of nouveau-riche pretensions ...
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 ...
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 ...

New Opera Stories: Rossini's "Ermione" - This is not a "story of heartbreak"—it is a story of how, when love turns into obsession, people destroy themselves.

The opera "Ermione." One of the most dramatic and innovative tragic operas composed by Gioachino Rossini in 1819. Love.
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 ...