Opera buffa is an ever-popular genre of the art, and more than two centuries after its composition, Rossini's Il barbière di ...

A Peruvian-born international star, he made a specialty of roles in operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Mozart, becoming one of ...

The next season will feature three of the world’s most popular works, “Pagliacci,” “The Barber of Seville” and “Carmen” ...

Pimpinone was conceived as a musical interlude – or intermezzo – between acts of Handel’s Tamerlano. Here, it marks the first ...

From Alexandria to Seville, the classic arts scene in New York is never quiet. Here is just a sampling of some of the classic ...

Between lingering cancel culture and an opera buffa administration that daily defies parody, you could be forgiven for ...

In 1775, Beaumarchais created Figaro, the Almavivas, Bartolo and the rest in his play Le Barbier de Séville at the court of ...

In an essay on The Name of the Rose, Eco characterised the novel as having “an opera buffa structure, with long recitatives and elaborate arias”. He also revealed in interviews that Gustav ...

One of the most beloved works in the operatic canon, this 1816 opera buffa (comic opera) is based on a 1772 French play by Pierre Beaumarchais about the resourceful barber and jack-of-all-trades ...