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The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his...

A crafty barber acts as a go-between for a count in disguise and rescues Rosina from marriage with her guardian. An operatic comedy.

A pair of shipwrecked lovers are captured by a Prince who hopes to make the woman his bride.

Russian pianist Aleksandr Dmitrievič Malofeev along with Ukrainian cellist Aleksey Shadrin, jazz musician Brad Mehldau from the United States,...

Live from Glyndebourne 1981

Rossini's first staged opera already contains all the elements that would take the music world by storm in Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in...

Oscar nominated animated short from 1973. Pulcinella dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As...

A king and his hunting party shoot down birds. A magpie escapes the onslaught of arrows and wreaks havoc on the hunting party.

Based on a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott and set against the backdrop of feudal Scotland, "La Donna del Lago" is one of Gioacchini Rossini's...

‘Eduardo e Cristina’ is a two-act musical drama by Gioachino Rossini, conducted by Jader Bignamini. Direction, set design, costumes,...

Rossini’s opera based on the fairy-tale Cinderella, filmed in real-life Italian locations in the ballrooms and gardens of some of Turin’s...

This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast...

For his first opera production, Dario Fo, the theatre director known for his brilliant wit, chose to stage Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia sung in...

All the men of Touraine are away on a Crusade. Only the young Count and his companions are around but have other things in mind; they are on the...

LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably...