Gioacchino Rossini

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) es una de las más grandes óperas cómicas. Basada en una excelente obra teatral de Beaumarchais, El barbero de Sevilla deleita al público con sus personajes agudamente es...

Wenn die ersten Töne erklingen, ist Weihnachten im Herzen: La Nuit de Noël sorgt für eine ganz besondere Stimmung. Die Bearbeitung von Bernd Classen für Blasorchester fängt diese gekonnt ein, indem Me...

The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...

In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...