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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Opera Philadelphia is putting on a love story never before seen in Philadelphia. Tancredi is a rarely performed opera that tells the story of a brave soldier and a ...

Phillip Addis as Tancredi and Krisztina Szabó as Clorinda in the Canadian Opera Company’s world premiere production of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (with ‘Lamento d’Arianna’ and ‘Il combattimento di Tancredi ...

Amenaide is in love with Tancredi, but her father Argirio, king of Syracuse offers Amenaide in marriage to Orbazzano in order to reconcile the two families. Tancredi wins the battle but is mortally ...

Operas, it is said, are often outdated in the stories they tell, and so people venture to update them time and again. Rarely do these succeed, as the Seebühne production of "Der Freischütz" proves ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera There was plenty of good music on hand for the principals--including the famed "Di tanti palpiti" for mezzo Tamara ...

Opera Boston, which takes chances with risky repertoire, opened its season at the Cutler Majestic Theatre with Rossini's "Tancredi" (1813), a tragic opera from a composer best known in our age for his ...

One of my operagoing highlights this year was a February performance of Rossini’s Tancredi at Opera Philadelphia with Stephanie Blythe in the title role and a strong cast that included soprano Brenda ...