Opera buffa, serious man Thirty nine operas and celebrity status were not enough for Rossini, says Michael Kennedy

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 2, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Rossini: A Life

by Gaia Servadio

Constable, pounds 20, 244 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

THIS EXCELLENT and very readable biography of Gioachino Rossini does not pretend to tell us anything new about his music. For that we can go elsewhere. But Gaia Servadio has written a lively, well- researched account of his strange life which she sets against the background of a Europe in turmoil.

At 32, with 39 operas to his name including not only comic operas but Otello and Semiramide, and the kind of adulation a pop star might expect today, Rossini gave up composing all but small-scale ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Rossini: A Life
; Rossini: A Life by Gaia Servadio Carroll & Graf (Avalon...the author, "the story of Rossini's life entwined with the story...Isabella Colbran and his parents. Gaia Servadio, a TV broadcaster and journalist...kept her word: this latest Rossini biography tells a story, ...
`Rossini' by Gaia Servadio; Carroll & Graf.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
; ...Frank Wilson Gioacchino Rossini wrote his first opera, Demetrio...wisdom has long held that Rossini was fundamentally lazy and...into a sluggard. Certainly, Gaia Servadio will have none of it. Rossini's active years, she says...a cri de coeur.'' Nor was Rossini at all careless, as ...
`Rossini' by Gaia Servadio; Carroll & Graf ($26).
; ...Frank Wilson Gioacchino Rossini wrote his first opera, Demetrio...wisdom has long held that Rossini was fundamentally lazy and...into a sluggard. Certainly, Gaia Servadio will have none of it. Rossini's active years, she says...a cri de coeur.'' Nor was Rossini at all careless, as ...
Lovely moments; Composers.(Rossini)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
; ...even Verdi. However, Gaia Servadio's biography does not...out to be a study of Rossini's music, rather it...Messe Solennelle . Gaia Servadio tells Rossini's story well, though...rounds out his life. Rossini. By Gaia Servadio.
Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life
; Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life By Benjamin...volume in the "Cambridge Studies in Opera" series looks at Rossini's last operas within their cultural and critical context. Although German poet Heinrich Heine implied in 1837 that Rossini's tuneful works had provided the perfect ...
Alva M. Rossini of Lombard since 1975.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
; Alva M. Rossini of Lombard since 1975 The funeral for Alva M. Rossini (nee Testaguzzi), 92, will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday...be from 3 to 9 p.m. today, at the funeral home. Mrs. Rossini passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, at Elmhurst Extended...
Former Chi-Chi's managers trade in taco for antipasto. (Raymond Weiss, Beth Rose; Rossini's Inc.)
; ...respectively, president and vice president of operations of Rossini's Inc., a year-old company which currently operates two Rossini's Ristorantes in the Cleveland area. The Rocky River Rossini's, which opened in May 1986, and the Richmond Heights restaurant...
Rossini: Otello
; ROSSINI: Otello * Futrak Shkosa; Ford, Matteuzzi, DArcangelo, Lopera...was the second in the series of opere serie the young Rossini composed for the Neapolitan impresario Domenico Barbaia...French and English) theaters. Marchese Berio di Salsa, Rossini's librettist, modified the Shakespeare tragedy in ...
Rossini's Comic Charmer of Seville
; ...debating the relative merits of Beethoven and Rossini. "A person feels good listening to Rossini," insists one. "All you feel like doing after...a person does indeed feel good listening to Rossini. "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" ("The Barber of...
Arts: At home with Rossini - music the Italian way; Christopher Morley reports on how the Italian town of Pesaro is repaying the generosity of its most famous son with an annual festival.(News)
; ...the release of a three-discs set of Rossini's Moise et Pharaon. Set down live during performances at the 1997 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer...what aims to be a complete series of Rossini's works for the stage, many of them...