Opera Cheat Sheet: Rossini's Armida

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Rinaldo ed il mago di Ascalona - Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give their humorous overview of Rossini’s 1817 opera, Armida. One of the many operas inspired by the tale of Armida and Rinaldo told in Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century Italian epic, La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), it’s a story of love, duty and sorcery. Rinaldo, a... Read More