Example sentences for: rossini

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  • Galileo, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, and composer Rossini are all buried there.

  • Connoisseurs of singing rarely hold moderate opinions, and there is hardly a singer who elicits more adulation and disapproval at the same time than mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who opens Oct. 16 in a new, made-to-order production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan Opera.

  • Opera houses have long been designed to be one-size-fits-all, but Rossini's domestic comedies inevitably seem dwarfed by a stage ample enough to contain the struggles in Wagner's Valhalla.

  • She has championed the music of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, herself a Rossini mezzo-soprano in the 19 th century, and led a campaign to rehabilitate Haydn's almost-mythological cantata Arianna a Naxos and his virtually unknown opera Orfeo ed Euridice . One reason she can get away with this is that she is a dazzlingly expressive singer, guiding the listener through the emotional landscape of a piece with every small push of her voice.

  • She has sung no more than a handful of operatic roles onstage, mostly Mozart and Rossini, and she has made a specialty of the songs that kept Rossini busy after his opera-composing career had ended.


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