This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Gioachino Rossini, honoree -- along with leap year -- of a Google Doodle ...

Google has doubled up on its Doodle today, celebrating both the 220th birthday of the Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini and also the leap year, via a quartet of leaping frogs in musical mode, ...

And one of the lovely things of this story is when Rossini was famous enough to get invited to Naples, where all this happened, to write operas and have them produced, Rossini demanded a cut of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Had he lived, the inventor of 19th century Italian opera would be celebrating his 51st birthday today. And he would be a very old man indeed. It sounds like a paradox out of one of his breathless, ...

1 Review: Robert LePage Directs MACBETH at the Stratford Festival 2 Review: Spectacular ANNIE is a Must-See at the Stratford Festival During a video call on July 24, 2021, Daniele Vimini, President of ...

While the Rossinian celebrations this year will not begin to equal the Lucullan excesses prepared for the bicentenary of Mozart`s death, audiences are in a better position today than at any time over ...

Gioachino Rossini retired from composing opera at age 37 after composing 39 operas, some of which remain the most popular operas on the planet even today. You know his music even if you’re not (yet) ...

This beachfront festival, devoted to a beloved native son, may be the world’s most seductively charming annual opera event. By Larry Wolff PESARO, Italy — The collapse of Italy’s governmental ...

Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, a pleasant, small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast, in 1792. His father was a horn player and his mother a singer, and he was inducted into the family band, aged ...

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini participated in what today would be considered an unorthodox business venture to support opera. Discover how contemporary ...