"It [the production design] has a kind of artificiality ... We know that the opera has wonderful music and it will still be beautiful, but we didn't want it to be romantic in a false way." ...

It was a pasta factory until almost a century ago, when the Rome Opera House transformed the four-story building into a ...

It’s a credit to Gioachino Rossini’s genius that the opera’s music remains ubiquitous in our cultural soundtrack.