The San Francisco Opera's third offering of the fall season, Donizetti's melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical ...

Ah, Rossini! He never wrote a melody that he didn’t use over and over again. A bit of a thieving magpie, he borrowed freely from his own work and anyone else whom he admired. The overture to “The ...

With a new opera season starting, at least via streaming or tourism, it might be a good time to ask what opera is. Opera is like the movies. There’s the broad term of movies but within that are dozens ...

Opera buffa is an ever-popular genre of the art, and more than two centuries after its composition, Rossini's Il barbière di Siviglia remains one this genre's most often staged operas. The music and ...