See Lino Rossini's sculptures first hand by visiting the Duomo di Milano (Piazza del Duomo 20121, Milan).
In 1868, Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, famed for his operatic comedies such as "The Barber of Seville, " died.
From there, it was on to La Scala's young-artists program, where she became fluent in Italian within six months and is focusing on Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.
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An opera by Gioachino Rossini has been broadcast live over the internet for the first time in Vienna, giving audiences around the world free access to a classical production.
The opera diva Bianca Castafiore, a coiffed and generously bosomed regular feature of the books, makes a guest appearance and warbles Rossini, shattering every wineglass, fish tank, and chandelier in sight which is special fun in 3-D.
When Rossini composed the rapid-fire vocal ornaments that give his operas their sparkle, he did so in a determined attempt to rein in the improvisational excesses of singers and reclaim some measure of control over his own music.
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For its third production this season, Gioachino Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" (1818), the itinerant New York City Opera returned to New York City Center, where it was born as "the people's opera" in 1944 and spent the first two decades of its life.
Through artistic performance involving music, sculpture and dance, supported by pyrotechnics, the audience was invited to a worldwide voyage to India with an Indian dance workshop and to Europe with masterfully interpretations of Verdi, Rossini and Mozart, played by a duet Ali and Stephanie Balthazard Lachaise.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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