If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

Rossini’s mammoth opera about the freedom-fighting, sharp-shooting hero William Tell is rarely staged. Working on a new Covent Garden production, Gerald Finley is grappling with ‘clever dirt’, archery ...

From women's basketball to women's tennis, and now men's basketball, ASU AD Graham Rossini's hires have pushed a message that ...

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics was memorable, with Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, and a host of world-class athletes taking center stage on Friday night. They weren’t the only ones to ...

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini participated in what today would be considered an unorthodox business venture to support opera. Discover how contemporary ...

Some authorities believe that Rossini always intended Guillaume Tell to be his final opera – that the attractions of early retirement at the age of 37 were too much to resist. Others maintain that it ...