Gioacchino Rossini

Gioacchino Rossini composed the Variations in Do for Clarinette in 1810 during his last year of study at the Musical Lyceum of Bologna. It was, in all probability, written for a school concert given b...

When Rossini's Opera Matilde di Shabran was premiered in Rome in 1821, it was billed as a 'melodrama giocoso', somewhere between an Opera Buffa and an Opera Seria in character.In 1822 it was given in...

When Rossini's Opera Matilde di Shabran was premiered in Rome in 1821, it was billed as a 'melodrama giocoso', somewhere between an Opera Buffa and an Opera Seria in character.In 1822 it was given in...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) di Rossini è una delle più grandi opere comiche. Basato su un'eccellente commedia di Beaumarchais, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" delizia il pubblico con i suoi personaggi ac...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) di Rossini è una delle più grandi opere comiche. Basato su un'eccellente commedia di Beaumarchais, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" delizia il pubblico con i suoi personaggi ac...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

The 'Duetto buffo di due gatti' (Comic duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concert encore. The 'lyrics' consist entirely of the repeated wo...

The 'Duetto buffo di due gatti' (Comic duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concert encore. The 'lyrics' consist entirely of the repeated wo...

Gioacchino Rossini is primarily known for his opera's, but also composed for other forces like this 'Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra'. It is generally believed that Ross...

Gioacchino Rossini is primarily known for his opera's, but also composed for other forces like this 'Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra'. It is generally believed that Ross...

La danza è una canzone patter di Gioacchino Rossini, in tempo di "Tarantella napoletana". È l'ottava canzone della raccolta "Les soirées musicales", composta negli anni 1830-1835. La danza è diventata...

La danza è una canzone patter di Gioacchino Rossini, in tempo di "Tarantella napoletana". È l'ottava canzone della raccolta "Les soirées musicales", composta negli anni 1830-1835. La danza è diventata...

La danza è una canzone patter di Gioacchino Rossini, in tempo di "Tarantella napoletana". È l'ottava canzone della raccolta "Les soirées musicales", composta negli anni 1830-1835. La danza è diventata...

La danza è una canzone patter di Gioacchino Rossini, in tempo di "Tarantella napoletana". È l'ottava canzone della raccolta "Les soirées musicales", composta negli anni 1830-1835. La danza è diventata...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Wenn die ersten Töne erklingen, ist Weihnachten im Herzen: La Nuit de Noël sorgt für eine ganz besondere Stimmung. Die Bearbeitung von Bernd Classen für Blasorchester fängt diese gekonnt ein, indem Me...

The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...

In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...