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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

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Rossini, painted in Paris in 1828 by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot © public domain

Rossini, painted in Paris in 1828 by Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

© public domain

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Year of birth	1792
Year of death	1868
Nationality	Italy
Period	Romantic

Gioachino Rossini © Public domain

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“Give me a laundry bill and I will set it to music.”

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Joseph Denis Odevaere: <i>Lord Byron on his Death-bed</i> (c.1826) © Public domain | Wikimedia Commons

Years of pilgrimage: Byron’s musical afterlives

Anna Bonitatibus © Frank Bonitatibus

Anna Bonitatibus on Rossini

Ethel Smyth used her golfing prowess to teach suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst how to throw bricks. © GPP | LSE Library

Polymath composers and their extra-musical successes

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Tercentenary of the French Dance School

Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

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Il barbiere di Siviglia

Opéra national de Paris

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Opéra national de Paris

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Neue Philharmonie Westfalen

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Il viaggio a Reims

Rossini Opera Festival

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Hannigan conducts the overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Wed 19 Aug at 11:00

Il viaggio a Reims

Sagi, Anselmi, Borzak, Rossini Opera Festival, Ojanguren, Rossi, Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Accademia Rossiniana "Alberto Zedda"

Hasmik Torosyan (Giulia) and Iurii Samoilov (Blansac) © Amati Bacciardi

La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)

Iviglia, Torosyan, Gaudenzi, Samoilov, Michieletto, López Reynoso, Rossini Opera Festival, Bordogna, Kent, Fantin, Carletti, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Matteo Mancini (Don Parmenione) and Damiana Mizzi (Berenice) © Amati Bacciardi

Thu 20 Aug at 20:00

L'occasione fa il ladro

Ponnelle, Frisell, Bonato, Rossini Opera Festival, Mancini, Toia, Monaco, Amati, Mizzi, Antonie, Rossi, Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini

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Matteo Mancini (Don Parmenione) and Damiana Mizzi (Berenice) © Amati Bacciardi

When Rossini meets Ponnelle: L’occasione fa il ladro at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Pamyra) © Amati Bacciardi

Beauty under siege: a new Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

Hasmik Torosyan (Giulia) and Iurii Samoilov (Blansac) © Amati Bacciardi

Fizzing farce: La scala di seta revived at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei