For more than 200 years, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” have been among the best-known operas in the world, with comical stories and lively music ...

‘Largo al factotum’ is the spectacular entrance music for Figaro, the famous barber character in Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville. As the aria is the audience’s first introduction to the ...

The operatic Barber of Seville, based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’ play Le Barbier de Séville, has never been ...

Originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, John Corigliano's 1991 English-language opera The Ghosts of Versailles celebrates and parodies the two popular "Figaro" operas in the classic ...

Opera lovers, take note: If you’ve been trying to introduce friends and loved ones to opera, this is your chance. The next production in the 2018-2019 season of Michigan Opera Theatre is a classic ...

If you’re going to see one opera this year, hurry to catch Seattle Opera’s “The Barber of Seville.” This is a timeless comedy with soaring, gorgeous music played for laughs. The music is at once ...

When Filippo Fontana was a young clarinetist growing up in Udine, Italy, he went to a hometown production of “The Barber of Seville.” “I remember Figaro coming out of the audience,” he says, “and ...