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First built in 1737 and rebuilt in 1816, it holds the distinction of once being under the musical direction of Gioacchino Rossini (1815–1822) and still possessing some of the finest acoustics in Europe.
Most famous of the high temples of this art is, of course, Milan’s La Scala (see page 151), showcasing the works of Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Puccini, and others.
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.
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.
Her new CD, An Italian Songbook , for instance, opens with one of dozens of settings Rossini made of two short verses by the 18 th -century poet Pietro Metastasio, "Mi lagnerò tacendo" ("I will complain silently").