Word: gioacchino
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...night concluded with a grand finale performed by 32 students on eight grand pianos: Gioacchino Rossini's "Overture to the opera semiramide...
...arrival at the Met of Beverly Sills, the homegrown soprano who is the finest singer-actress in opera today. Sills' debut next week will be in a work never before heard there, The Siege of Corinth, a grandiose tragedy by a composer best known for his comedies, Gioacchino Rossini...
...Rossini," Beethoven said to his young Italian visitor in the spring of 1822, "you are the composer of The Bar ber of Seville. It delights me. It will be played as long as Italian opera exists." As usual, Beethoven was exactly right. Although Gioacchino Rossini dashed off 38 operas before his retirement at the age of 37, he was long known as essentially a one-opera composer. Many of his lively overtures are concert hall staples, but the musical dramas they introduce were generally considered too florid for modern ears and too demanding for contemporary voices...
Sometimes Rossini wrote good operas poorly; sometimes he wrote bad operas well. The mind of a genius and the soul of a hack confronted him like matched pistols, and under the guns, he once wrote 28 operas in ten years. But now and then while on vacation from himself, Gioacchino Rossini wrote a great opera, and at such times there was no one like him The glory of this man." wrote Stendhal in 1823. "is only limited by the limits of civilization itself; and he is not yet 32." That same year Rossini pushed civilization's limits back...
After her coronation as "Miss World" in London last fall, sinuous Argentine Mannequin Norma Gladys Cappaglis, 21, predictably found someone who could get her a part in a movie. While in Rome waiting to start, she was immortalized by Italian Painter Gioacchino Parlato as she sat for the newest version of the old classic: a portrait of artist and model...