If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you ...

Rossini was just 12, and entirely self-taught, when he composed these engaging trifles for a friend who played the double bass – hence their unusual scoring for two violins, cello and bass. In later ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

— The bringing out of Verdi’s Othello at the Paris Opéra, and the final closing up of the restaurant Magny, — both important events of the late autumn of 1894, — have stranded safely from the ebb tide ...

It's often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But when it comes to music there are times when that flattery winds up more famous than its inspiration. For example, who comes to ...

Some authorities believe that Rossini always intended Guillaume Tell to be his final opera – that the attractions of early retirement at the age of 37 were too much to resist. Others maintain that it ...

The ROF is the only international event entirely dedicated to Gioachino Rossini, recovering and staging the musical heritage associated with the composer's name. In addition to the most famous scores, ...

Rossini’s copious and largely forgotten piano music includes 13 volumes of Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of old age), written in his final decade long after he’d ceased composing operas. These salon-like ...