The year 1813 proved a productive one for Rossini, with several important works: "Il signor ", "Tancredi", "Aureliano in Palmira"... In between came an opera...
Two full comic operas notwithstanding, the beginning of Rossini's career is best represented by a continuous succession of five one act operas or farsas, as...
Rossini Thieving Magpie Overture (conclusion). Stuart Johnson conducting the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra. Live performance from Berlin in 1985.
With "Guillaume Tell" Rossini finally offered Parisian audiences an original opera in French, though the public wouldn't be too excited by Rossini's experiment with the...