Music in the Present Tense: Rossini’s Italian Operas in Their Time, by Emanuele Senici

Nicholas Till enjoys a detailed analysis of the ‘phenomenal appeal’ of one of the great names in opera

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February 13, 2020

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February 13, 2020

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Dress rehearsal of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The barber of Seville), Opera Theatre in Rome, 2012

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