It takes six tenors and one phenomenal soprano to perform Gioachino Rossini’s “Armida,” which helps explain why the Metropolitan Opera didn’t get around to mounting this glorious work for 193 years.

NEW YORKNEW YORK — It took 193 years for Rossini’s “Armida” to make it to the Metropolitan Opera but only nine months for its first revival. Soprano Renee Fleming and five of the six tenors who sang ...

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The final high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera this season is "Armida" by Gioacchino Rossini. The Saturday performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. All ...

I am not a great fan of Rossini. Having said that the poor chap is really quite blameless. After all, what do I know of him? I've seen Il Barbiere di Siviglia several times, it is true, and love its ...

Last Saturday I returned from my early errands to find a mid-morning message on the phone from my uncle, who by happy coincidence also lives in Ithaca, New York a few miles from my house.: “Lump Lump, ...

Mounting the company premiere of Rossini’s “Armida” at the Metropolitan Opera this season would almost seem to be an act of defiance. It’s an opera that calls for six tenors — when even one Met-worthy ...

What a delightful surprise – a Rossini opera which shows him with his mind firmly on the job, from the overture’s arresting beginning to the anti-heroine’s concluding tirade. Making no lurches into ...

Performed by the orchestra and chorus of Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia with singers Cristina Deutekom, Ottavio Garaventa, Edoardo Gimenez, Pietro Bottazzo, Bernardino Trotta, Alessandro ...

What a delightful surprise – a Rossini opera which shows him with his mind firmly on the job, from the overture’s arresting beginning to the anti-heroine’s concluding tirade. Making no lurches into ...