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 ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera "We are staging this highly challenging opera expressly for Renée Fleming, who has the extraordinarily rare artistic ...

2 Video: First Look at Michael Mayer-Directed LA TRAVIATA at The Metropolitan Opera 3 Video: First Look at THE CRUCIBLE at Washington National Opera In April of 2010 the Metropolitan Opera mounted the ...

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.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Rinaldo ed il mago di Ascalona – Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give their ...

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 ...

In recent years, the country-house brief of exploring neglected repertoire has been diverted from Glyndebourne to Garsington and Grange Park. Was Garsington upstaged by the Met's live screening of its ...

It is standard operating procedure for a world-class opera company like the Metropolitan Opera to mount a sumptuous new production to showcase a world-class diva. Therefore, it's no surprise that this ...

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 ...

In the Saturday, May 1 matinee performance of Rossini's Armida, Barry Banks will sing the role of Gernando in addition to the scheduled role of Carlo, as he did for the April 27 performance. He ...

A recurring phrase in Rossini’s Armida, about a sorceress and her ill-fated love for a Christian soldier during the Crusades, A recurring phrase in Rossini’s Armida, about a sorceress and her ...