TRANSCRIPT Meet Semiramide, legendary queen of Babylon, where murder, intrigue and unholy secrets reign supreme. But who angered the gods? Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Ildar Abdrazakov, ...

Concert opera companies often end up specializing in a form of opera akin to an athletic event: The focus is turned from the drama onto the physical feat of producing the sound. The Washington Concert ...

This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance-its first in nearly 25 years-with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star Bel Canto cast features Angela Meade in the title ...

The life and exploits of Semiramis, the legendary queen of Assyria from the 9th century BC, seems to have held a peculiar fascination for 17th and 18th-century opera composers and librettists. The ...

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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Marilyn Horne news every morning. It can be hard to take Semiramide seriously. Audiences in Venice in 1823, when Rossini’s last opera ...

First performed in Venice in 1823, Rossini's Semiramide was once famously called the last and most beautiful of the great baroque operas. The description is in some respects inaccurate: later Italian ...

00:01, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Updated: 16:16, Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Indeed, this is its first appearance at Covent Garden for more than a century, but the Opera House has assembled a superb cast of singers for ...

Scholarly opinion informs me that Semiramide is one of Rossini’s crowning achievements – his farewell to Italian opera, based on a tragedy by Voltaire, with a title role designed to show off the ...