Example sentences for: rossini

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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").


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