Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Put on an opera about regime change and there is always likely to be some topical reference to hand. The imminent ...

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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 ...

3 Review: Beczala and Golovatenko Make Met’s CHENIER a Memorable Night under Rustioni Due to illness, Italian bass-baritone Ildebrando D'Arcangelo has had to withdraw from the role of Assur in ...

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 ...

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GIOACHINO Rossini is remembered best for joyous comedies such as The Barber Of Seville and Cenerentola but the composer himself gave greater weight to his monumental dramas. Chief among them was ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. After 25 years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived John Copley’s production of Rossini’s last and most ...

Robert McPherson will sing the role of Idreno in Rossini's Semiramide for tonight's performance, February 28 at 7.30pm, replacing Javier Camarena who is ill. The American tenor also replaced Camarena ...