World of Opera with host Lisa Simeone brings listeners the world of tragedy and triumph, passion and seduction, intrigue and disaster, jealousies and dreams — the world of opera — every week.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Opera Philadelphia is putting on a love story never before seen in Philadelphia. Tancredi is a rarely performed opera that tells the story of a brave soldier and a ...

Rossini's operas rank right up there with Bach's cantatas, Handel's oratorios and Haydn's symphonies on the list of vast, magnificent -- and mostly unfamiliar -- repertories by great composers.

Michele Mariotti conducts Gioachino Rossini’s *Tancredi* for the first time. Carlo Vistoli takes on the title role. Joining him on stage are Martina Russomanno, Antonino Siragusa, and Luca Tittoto.

Operas, it is said, are often outdated in the stories they tell, and so people venture to update them time and again. Rarely do these succeed, as the Seebühne production of "Der Freischütz" proves ...

OUT OF TOWN During his two-decade tenure at the helm of Bel Canto at Caramoor, the conductor and scholar Will Crutchfield did his part to encourage audiences to take the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, ...