Act Two features one of Rossini's most beautiful ensembles, a quintet that finds Zelmira and Emma still determined to save Polidoro, while Antenore and Leucippo are determined to see him dead. In the ...

All sorts of successful creative artists have been subjected to a phenomenon that's been called "pigeonholing." Opera composers — including Gioachino Rossini, one of the very finest — are no exception ...