Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

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 ...

On July 16, 2016, conductor Will Crutchfield will take up his baton to conduct the American premiere of Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira at Caramoor. With a wave of his hand, he will ...

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 ...

To see more of Rossini’s talent, check out Opera Southwest’s production of “L’Italiana in Algeri” from 2011. The NewsHour wants to hear from artists who have found creative ways to turn their artistic ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

— The bringing out of Verdi’s Othello at the Paris Opéra, and the final closing up of the restaurant Magny, — both important events of the late autumn of 1894, — have stranded safely from the ebb tide ...

Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music?” Rossini's Petite messe solennelle dons a period instrument ...