Mezzo Hannah Ludwig belts out a jolly drinking song in Rossini’s otherwise serious opera La Gazza Ladra. Steven Pisano There’a an antique joke set at the old Metropolitan Opera House—the scruffy venue ...

Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the WDR music flick. La Gazza Ladra starring Ileana Contrubas, David Kuebler, Alberto Rinaldo, Elena Zillio has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of ...

With period instruments and an unusual orchestral setup, Teatro Nuovo’s productions of two obscure operas by Bellini and Rossini offer a taste of what once made these works so wildly successful. Heidi ...

Rossini's famous comic opera, La gazza ladra, was based on a tragic, real-life crime story, but his version is somewhat sanitized. Young Ninetta escapes the gallows when it is discovered that a pet ...

A feathered thief, a servant wrongly sentenced to death and a corrupt, power-hungry politician: those are the protagonists of Rossini’s semi-serious opera whose overture, with its drum rolls and oboe ...

Back in 1979 Zedda’s conducting was still work in progress. In this Wildbad performance he is very much master of his craft, conducting with a mixture of guile and élan that calls to mind the ...