Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Put on an opera about regime change and there is always likely to be some topical reference to hand. The imminent ...

A lot of risk, fast rotations in perfect unison, a precarious balance point. No, I'm not talking about doing a twizzle in Olympic ice-dancing--but starring in SEMIRAMIDE by Gioacchino Rossini, a man ...

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon. The opera ...

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NEW YORK (AP) - When Elizabeth DeShong comes onstage and sings her bravura opening aria in Rossini’s “Semiramide,” audiences at the Metropolitan Opera may be scratching their heads trying to recall ...

Just as we lavish praise upon the Metropolitan Opera for truly superior work, such as the splendid music drama that is in their current production of Wagner’s Parsifal, we need to admit that on a less ...

In fact much of Rossini’s repertoire, both comic and tragic, fell out of favour worldwide from about the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, partly as a disappearance of such star lead sopranos ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rossini's Semiramide is presented at the Met for the first time in 25 years, with ...

00:01, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Updated: 16:16, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Indeed, this is its first appearance at Covent Garden for more than a century, but the Opera House has assembled a superb cast of singers for ...

Officials have confirmed two people were killed and another five were injured in a shooting at Florida State University. by Monica Brown The Washington Concert Opera is presenting Rossini's Semiramide ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. After 25 years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived John Copley’s production of Rossini’s last and most ...

WILLIAM Hogarth's series of paintings A Rake's Progress served as the catalyst for Igor Stravinsky when he saw engravings of these in 1947 at a Chicago exhibition. The cautionary fable of a young man ...