Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" with Mary Hoskins as Berta, left, Maria Kataeva as Rosina, Renato Girolami as ...

Open this photo in gallery: But it’s possible that Joan Font’s carnivalesque staging, revived by the Canadian Opera Company in a co-production with Houston Grand Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux and ...

San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season will continue with a summer lineup featuring productions, concerts, and special events across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Richard Strauss and Hugo von ...

Rossini’s recognizable melodies set the stage for a madcap matchmaking musical comedy. Audiences will delight in a plot fraught with bribery, mischievous deception, and disguise all in the name of ...

Auckland soprano Morag Atchison stands out among a dazzling cast in Opera NZ's Barber of Seville. Photo / David Rowland NZ Opera's The Barber of Seville must be the entertainment ticket of the ...

Rossini's most famous opera, "The Barber of Seville," is performed so often that keeping it fresh is an evergreen concern. Opening last Friday, with performances through Feb. 10, Houston Grand Opera's ...

Today, The Barber of Seville is so well loved that the comedian Robin Williams performed its most famous aria in the guise of a cartoon bird in Mrs Doubtfire. But when it premiered in 1816, Rossini's ...

It’s that narcotic moment of creative bliss, that point at which all the elements of a production magically coalesce, producing something far greater than the sum of its parts. Getting there, though, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Los Angeles Opera’s cute, clever new production of “The Barber of ...