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Gioacchino Rossini
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Gioacchino Rossini was Italy’s dominate opera composer of the early 19th century. He wrote 35 operas over two decades (actually retiring at the age of 37 after having written his final opera, Guillaume Tell.) Most famous for his opera Il barbiere di Siviglia, the Barber of Seville, Rossini rejuvenated the art of the opera buffa and opera seria. He is credited with beginning the age of the bel canto. (or beautiful singing) Below are some of Rossini’s more important operatic works. Links will take you directly to the plot summary information for the opera.
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The operas of the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), particularly those in the comic genre, were among the most popular works of the entire 19th century. His best-known work is " The Barber of Seville."
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ANN ARBOR Ñ The University of Michigan School of Music Opera Theatre presents Gioacchino Rossini's beguiling comic opera" La Cenerentola." This popular adaptation of the Cinderella story plays March 21-23, 8:00 p.m. and March 24, 2:00 p.m. at the Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor. Guest artist Nicolette Molnár, who staged "The Turn of the Screw" for University Productions in 1998 and has helmed productions around the world, will direct.
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In 1803, when he was only 11, Gioacchino Rossini befriended the wealthy Malerbi family in Lugo. He had access to their rich music library and took singing lessons from Canon Giuseppe Malerbi. Under Malerbi's guidance, Rossini ... developed the foundations of what was to become his own unique style of composition.
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Gioacchino Rossini is best known for his bubbling comic operas, frothy and fun works such as The Barber of Seville and Cenerentola. His setting of the anonymous 13th-century poem Stabat Mater is an uncharacteristic work for him, serious in a more than dramatic sense, and soaringly religious. After turning out more than two dozen operas, Rossini retired in 1829 at the age of 37, the victim of ill health and politics. But in 1831, he was persuaded to take on a commission to compose a setting of the Stabat Mater. He originally pushed the writing of some of the more boring stanzas to a colleague, but a decade later he decided to revamp the score and make it entirely his own, with happy results. You can see how this master composer successfully combined religious and theatrical elements with the Dover edition of the complete instrumental score.
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Gioacchino Rossini was born in Pesaro on Feb. 29, 1792, into a musical family: his father was a trumpeter and horn player; his mother became a successful operatic singer. When he was 4 years old, Gioacchino's mother took him to Bologna, where she sought and found singing engagements and where the child received instruction in singing, theory, keyboard, and several other instruments. By the time he was in his early teens, he was an accomplished accompanist, sometimes played horn with his father in the orchestra at the opera, and had begun writing music.
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