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 ...

Sorry, this video is not currently available. Directed by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman and conducted by Riccardo Frizza, the production showcases Fleming’s ...

Tyrese Byrd as Ubaldo, Botond Pál as Rinaldo, and Emily Helenbrook as the title character in Opera Neo’s “Armida.” (Photo courtesy Gary Payne Photography) What was it about the story of Armida and ...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) composed the opera Armida in Naples and it was premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo on 11 May 1817, marking the inauguration of the newly built theatre after it had been ...

This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison, based on the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso, has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, ...

To prevent the capture of Jerusalem by the knights of the First Crusade, The Prince of Darkness has sent the enchantress Armida into the world to seduce the Christian heroes and turn them from their ...

March is opera month at Teatru Manoel... the month that will see Gioachino Rossini's Armida staged at Malta's National Theatre which will be the first time that this opera is being performed in Malta.

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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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Metropolitan Opera first raised its curtain in 1883, but until Monday the company had never ventured ...