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The history of the Overtures: when first impressions count
You never get a second chance to make a first impression! Thankfully this isn’t always true, but a good start
Pietro Mascagni: the composer and the conductor
Pietro Mascagni enjoyed immense success during his lifetime, both as a composer and conductor of his own and other people’s
Stabat Mater: Rossini’s sacred masterpiece
Performed for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre-Italien’s Salle Ventadour on 7 January 1842, the Stabat Mater is
UNESCO: Italy candidate Italian opera as an intangible heritage of humanity
Last month in Rome during an online meeting chaired by Franco Bernabè, the Board of Directors of the UNESCO Italian
Le comte Ory: Rossini’s comic masterpiece
Le comte Ory is one of Gioachino Rossini’s late operas written in 1828, a comic masterpiece, a mixture of risky
William Tell: Rossini’s last opera
Rossini’s William Tell is a French-language opera in four acts to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L.
