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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 ...

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FSU Opera presents Gioachino Rossini’s telling of the classic Cinderella story. FSU Opera presents Gioachino Rossini’s telling of the classic Cinderella story. In Rossini’s version, the wicked ...

Google has doubled up on its Doodle today, celebrating both the 220th birthday of the Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini and also the leap year, via a quartet of leaping frogs in musical mode, ...

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Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, a pleasant, small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast, in 1792. His father was a horn player and his mother a singer, and he was inducted into the family band, aged ...

Today, The Barber of Seville is so well loved that the comedian Robin Williams performed its most famous aria in the guise of a cartoon bird in Mrs Doubtfire. But when it premiered in 1816, Rossini's ...

Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and music of Gioachino Rossini. Donald starts by unpacking the winning formula Rossini hit on right at the start of his operatic career. Aged 18, Rossini ...

Rossini, who was born on February 29, 1792 in the Papal States in Italy, composed William Tell as well as the comic operas The Barber of Seville and Cinderella. The son of a trumpeter, Rossini became ...