What a delightful surprise – a Rossini opera which shows him with his mind firmly on the job, from the overture’s arresting beginning to the anti-heroine’s concluding tirade. Making no lurches into ...
Music composed by Gioacchino Rossini. Libretto by Giovanni Federico Schmidt based on Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. First Performance: 11 November 1817 at Teatro San Carlos, Naples. A ...
The San Carlo was the world’s most important theater at that time. Its legendary caffe waiter turned opera impresario Domenico Barbaja had not only the famous mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran (his ...
Perhaps the operaís unflattering depiction of the Austrians as invaders and repressors of the Swiss people had something to do with the operaís long absence from the Viennese repertoire. More likely, ...
Operas that had middling (or less) success during the composer’s lifetime have been recorded, with music that often strikes the ear as quite familiar, since Rossini, understandably, employed the ...
Another good-to-superb recording of a little-known Rossini opera, thanks to the Rossini in Wildbad festival. The recording blends three concert performances from July 2017 and features Silvia Dalla ...
WASHINGTON – FBI Agent Mark T. Rossini, who became fodder for the New York gossip columns when he started dating actress Linda Fiorentino, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington to ...
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