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 ...
Teatro Regio Torino's sparkling concert-performance of the full Rossini opera proves there's more to it than the 'Lone Ranger' overture Rossini's last opera – the whole thing, that is, not just the ...
— The bringing out of Verdi’s Othello at the Paris Opéra, and the final closing up of the restaurant Magny, — both important events of the late autumn of 1894, — have stranded safely from the ebb tide ...
17 November 1923: Can there really be music outside Italy? By WJ Turner An evening in Rome watching a performance of Rossini’s operas has Walter J Turner musing on the life of the 19th-century ...
Donald Macleod looks at the winning formula of Rossini's early operas, presenting five takes on his life and music. Rossini had the good fortune to learn his craft not from a course of dry academic ...