Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

Rossini’s mammoth opera about the freedom-fighting, sharp-shooting hero William Tell is rarely staged. Working on a new Covent Garden production, Gerald Finley is grappling with ‘clever dirt’, archery ...

Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini participated in what today would be considered an unorthodox business venture to support opera. Discover how contemporary ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” is a peculiar score, both as a 19th-century Mass and as a work of Rossini’s. One of Rossini’s few large works that was not written for the opera house, it has ...