Gioacchino Rossini

Standard Name: Rossini, Gioacchino

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Material Conditions of Writing	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	The first idea for this book had come to her in Italy, when she looked at Rosa's pictures in galleries, and learned that he had also been a satirist of the established political order. She...
Occupation	Adelaide Kemble	AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London. Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963. 606

Timeline

1816

Gioacchino Rossini 's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) had its first performance in Rome; its libretto, by Beaumarchais , is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, set by Mozart .

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

6 April 1847

Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance of Rossini 's Semiramide) as The Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden .

Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.

53, 57, 283

Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.

2: 184

“AbouttheHouse: History”. Royal Opera House.

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