The Barber of Seville is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy Le Barbier de ...

A spirited performance of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini can take the breath away and make a critic hold his tongue, temporarily at least, about any flaws he may have heard or seen. Prior to the ...

The great new Italian opera buffa, otherwise known as The Last Hours of the Costa Concordia, becomes more bizarre by the day. At first, the recitative showstopper seemed to be the recorded dialogue ...

This excellent and very readable biography of Gioachino Rossini does not pretend to tell us anything new about his music. For that we can go elsewhere. But Gaia Servadio has written a lively, ...

WHEN the Teatro Colón, Latin America's most famous opera house, closed for refurbishment in November 2006, Buenos Aires city officials vowed that it would reopen in time for its centenary on May 25th ...

A Saturday afternoon on the Asbury Park boardwalk offers such summer delights as beach volleyball under a kite-filled sky, miniature golf and skee-ball, lobster rolls and funnel cake. What a blessing ...