Gioachino Rossini

Giachino Rossini wrote 39 operas, and unfortunately, only a handful are regularly performed. However, we’re going to look at one of those lesser-known works (number 18 of the 39) on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/11 3:00 p.m.). it’s “Ricciardo e Zoraida” which premiered in Naples in 1818 and is considered by many to be a perfect example of bel canto singing.

This week we're heading to the Vienna State Opera's production of "Guillaume Tell" featuring Roberto Frontali in the title role. The opera will be followed by more music of Rossini.

This program features a 2004 recording of one of the 39 operas of Rossini that has been pretty much forgotten. "Matilde di Shabran" is a love story of sorts which is filled with some wonderful music by Rossini and a complicated libretto that is an excellent example of its time.

This is one of the five opera buffa written by Rossini for the Teatro San Moise in Venice in a production from the Opera Festival of Chicago.

This week, we'll hear a 1973 performance of Rossini's "William Tell" featuring Gabriel Bacquier, Mady Mesple, Monsterrat Caballe, and Nicolai Gedda among others.

This week's Sunday Opera features another forgotten work: Rossini's "Bianca e Falliero"

This week is the first of two operas from Opera Southwest on The Sunday Opera (9/26 3:00 p.m.). Based on a 1760 play by Voltaire, “Tancredi” had its…

We’re celebrating the anniversary of the birth (sort of) of Gioachino Rossini on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/1 3:00 p.m.), and that’s because he was born…

The heroic folk-legend of Swiss patriot William Tell is this week’s Sunday Opera (12/2 3:00 p.m.) from Opera Southwest. Gioacchino Rossini’s opera, with a…

Ancient Babylon is the setting for this week’s Sunday Opera from OperaDelaware (12/2 3:00 p.m.) with Gioachiono Rossini’s last Italian opera, “Semiramide”…