— 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 ...

All sorts of successful creative artists have been subjected to a phenomenon that's been called "pigeonholing." Opera composers — including Gioachino Rossini, one of the very finest — are no exception ...

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini participated in what today would be considered an unorthodox business venture to support opera. Discover how contemporary ...

This week, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Gioachino Rossini, 150 years after his death. Monday - The Rossini Code Rossini had the good fortune to learn his craft not from a course of ...

Gioachino Rossini, the Lone Ranger’s classical composer of choice, was said to be a gourmand of the first order and no mean amateur chef to boot. In between composing such enduring classics as William ...

Gioachino Rossini retired from composing opera at age 37 after composing 39 operas, some of which remain the most popular operas on the planet even today. You know his music even if you’re not (yet) ...

A masterclass in both the classical and comical. Here's the Rossini-esque opera duet where the lyrics consist entirely of the word ‘meow’. This hilarious ‘Duetto buffo di due gatti’ (‘Funny duet for ...

And one of the lovely things of this story is when Rossini was famous enough to get invited to Naples, where all this happened, to write operas and have them produced, Rossini demanded a cut of the ...

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 ...