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 ...

Rossini's hilarious prequel to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro was considered a must-see long before Bugs Bunny brought its frenetic overture to an even larger audience. Count Almaviva is in love with ...

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 ...

One question that arises from Minnesota Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”: how did such an inane story become so embedded in the consciousness of Western culture?

The Minnesota Opera’s 2024–25 season is set to feature a trio of classic and newer operas, with more exclusive events for season subscribers than in recent years. The next season, the opera’s 62nd, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arts presenters are coming up with myriad ways to return to live performance, with none perhaps quite as innovative as San Francisco Opera’s new staging of ...