NEW YORK (AP) - When Elizabeth DeShong comes onstage and sings her bravura opening aria in Rossini’s “Semiramide,” audiences at the Metropolitan Opera may be scratching their heads trying to recall ...

TRANSCRIPT Meet Semiramide, legendary queen of Babylon, where murder, intrigue and unholy secrets reign supreme. But who angered the gods? Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Ildar Abdrazakov, ...

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon. The opera ...

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Just as we lavish praise upon the Metropolitan Opera for truly superior work, such as the splendid music drama that is in their current production of Wagner’s Parsifal, we need to admit that on a less ...

In fact much of Rossini’s repertoire, both comic and tragic, fell out of favour worldwide from about the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, partly as a disappearance of such star lead sopranos ...

An old joke in opera circles goes that a semi-“ramide” is better than a whole one (I didn’t say it was a good joke). But for Rossini fans, this sprawling melodrama, “Semiramide” from 1823, represents ...

OperaDelaware celebrates the 225th anniversary of the birth of Gioachino Rossini with festival performances this Saturday and Sunday and next weekend. Legend has it that in 1822 a young and wildly ...