Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" with Mary Hoskins as Berta, left, Maria Kataeva as Rosina, Renato Girolami as ...

Opera Modesto has announced its 2026-2027 season, a lineup that blends operatic masterpieces with impactful education and community programs. The Opera Modesto season kicks off in September with ...

In Act I, Figaro introduces himself with one of the most famous numbers in opera, "Largo al factotum." Here it is sung by Aaron St. Clair Nicholson at Glimmerglass. Not long after Figaro's big moment, ...

San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season will continue with a summer lineup featuring productions, concerts, and special events across San Francisco and the Bay Area. The season includes Richard Strauss and ...

Cecilia Stinton injects a whiff of EM Forster’s A Room With a View to the comic masterpiece’s well-worn plot Dr Bartolo, the old man who has to be outwitted before the young couple get it together in ...

Rossini's most famous opera, "The Barber of Seville," is performed so often that keeping it fresh is an evergreen concern. Opening last Friday, with performances through Feb. 10, Houston Grand Opera's ...

The Louisiana Opera presents the comic opera, "The Barber of Seville," at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Months ago ...

If the mid-winter blues are getting you down, perhaps a visit to the Barber is in order. Font is especially good at showing the full range of human activity in any given setting. During a nighttime ...

Every once in a while in the life of a critic, something one does on one’s beat comes to define them for some time to come. I had one such moment this spring. To the outside eye, the choice may not ...

The mood has become brittle in this latest revival of Jonathan Miller’s take on Rossini’s comedy, but there is much to enjoy still Jonathan Miller ’s production of The Barber of Seville has been an ...