Mezzo Hannah Ludwig belts out a jolly drinking song in Rossini’s otherwise serious opera La Gazza Ladra. Steven Pisano There’a an antique joke set at the old Metropolitan Opera House—the scruffy venue ...
With period instruments and an unusual orchestral setup, Teatro Nuovo’s productions of two obscure operas by Bellini and Rossini offer a taste of what once made these works so wildly successful. Heidi ...
A feathered thief, a servant wrongly sentenced to death and a corrupt, power-hungry politician: those are the protagonists of Rossini’s semi-serious opera whose overture, with its drum rolls and oboe ...