'Give me a shopping list and I will set it to music,' the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini is said to have said. Perhaps apocryphal, but fitting for the man who composed faster than musicians could rehearse his scores. Where Wagner needed a lifetime for 14 operas, Rossini wrote triple that. In barely fifteen years.
Samen met Bellini en Donizitti is Rossini de meester van de bel canto opera, en deze drie componisten schreven in min of meer dezel...
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