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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - When Elizabeth DeShong comes onstage and sings her bravura opening aria in Rossini’s “Semiramide,” audiences at the Metropolitan Opera may be scratching their heads trying to recall ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rossini's Semiramide is presented at the Met for the first time in 25 years, with ...

Just as we lavish praise upon the Metropolitan Opera for truly superior work, such as the splendid music drama that is in their current production of Wagner’s Parsifal, we need to admit that on a less ...

Outstanding performances by Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Daniela Barcellona illuminate David Alden’s occasionally cluttered vision of this Rossini rarity Rossini’s great 1823 tragedy, his ...

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 ...

In fact much of Rossini’s repertoire, both comic and tragic, fell out of favour worldwide from about the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, partly as a disappearance of such star lead sopranos ...

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Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with which it shares certain plot archetypes, Semiramide is rarely played complete. Yet when it is, as here in this live concert performance recorded in Wildbad in 2012, the ...