Research topic: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini , 1792-1868, Italian operatic composer, one of the great masters of the Italian opera buffa. His parents were both musicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his first formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was performed. Rossini's first comic opera, La Cambiale de Matrimonio, was produced in Venice in 1810, and it was followed by a series of lively works, culminating in his masterpiece, Il Barbiere di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville, 1816). Based on the comedy by Beaumarchais,... Read more