Example sentences for: rossini

How can you use “rossini” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If La Cenerentola --Rossini's version of the Cinderella story--has made it to the Met for the first time in the company's history, it is only because Bartoli brought it there.

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

  • 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").

  • 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.


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