Not one compilation of Rossini's musical output would be complete without his first "hit tune": "Di tanti palpiti", the moderato section (a cabaletta of sorts)...
The year 1813 proved a productive one for Rossini, with several important works: "Il signor ", "Tancredi", "Aureliano in Palmira"... In between came an opera...
Finally, the most important woman in Rossini's life - mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran - has an opportunity to enchant us.
If we were to choose "a crown...
Joan Sutherland's "the Art of the Primadonna" is certainly well known to opera lovers. Sutherland was always a most wonderful singer, but this was one...
There are terzettos throughout the operatic repertory, and terzettions abound, but there is only one terzettone, that in Rossini's "Maometto II".
Rossini penchant for humorous...
