Gioacchino Rossini

A Rossini overture is a challenge for any orchestra and a treat for the audience. It is especially the woodwinds that show their best side in this less known but no less splendid overture. (Concert Ba...

Une ouverture de Rossini est un défi pour tout orchestre et un régal pour le public. Ce sont surtout les bois qui se montrent sous leur meilleur jour dans cette ouverture moins connue mais non moins s...

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. The Cavatina 'Largo al factotum' is sung by Figaro, the barber of Sevilla, in the first act of the opera: he tells...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. La Cavatine "Largo al factotum" est chantée par Figaro, le barbier de Séville, dans le premier acte de l'opéra : il...

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. The Cavatina 'Largo al factotum' is sung by Figaro, the barber of Sevilla, in the first act of the opera: he tells...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. La Cavatine "Largo al factotum" est chantée par Figaro, le barbier de Séville, dans le premier acte de l'opéra : il...

From 1824 through 1829 Rossini's life was centered in Paris where he composed at the age of 37 his 39th and last opera: the masterpiece Guglielmo Tell. Its four part overture is a vast programmatic de...

De 1824 à 1829, la vie de Rossini se déroule à Paris où il compose, à l'âge de 37 ans, son 39e et dernier opéra : le chef-d'œuvre Guglielmo Tell. Son ouverture en quatre parties est un vaste programme...

From 1824 through 1829 Rossini's life was centered in Paris where he composed at the age of 37 his 39th and last opera: the masterpiece Guglielmo Tell. Its four part overture is a vast programmatic de...

De 1824 à 1829, la vie de Rossini se déroule à Paris où il compose, à l'âge de 37 ans, son 39e et dernier opéra : le chef-d'œuvre Guglielmo Tell. Son ouverture en quatre parties est un vaste programme...

Less well known, perhaps, but no less brilliant, is the overture to the one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino in wich Rossini apparently caused a near scandal by directing the violins to beat out rhytms w...

Less well known, perhaps, but no less brilliant, is the overture to the one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino in wich Rossini apparently caused a near scandal by directing the violins to beat out rhytms w...

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) est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ravit le public avec ses personnages finement esquissés, s...

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) est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ravit le public avec ses personnages finement esquissés, s...

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...

Gioacchino Rossini a composé les Variations en Do pour clarinette en 1810, au cours de sa dernière année d'études au Lycée musical de Bologne. Selon toute vraisemblance, cette œuvre a été écrite pour...

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...

Gioacchino Rossini a composé les Variations en Do pour clarinette en 1810, au cours de sa dernière année d'études au Lycée musical de Bologne. Selon toute vraisemblance, cette œuvre a été écrite pour...

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) est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ravit le public avec ses personnages finement esquissés, s...

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) est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ravit le public avec ses personnages finement esquissés, s...