Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), together with Puccini and Verdi, is one of the most important opera composers in Italian music history. His most famous operas include La Gazza Ladra and William Tell. B...

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), together with Puccini and Verdi, is one of the most important opera composers in Italian music history. His most famous operas include La Gazza Ladra and William Tell. B...

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One of the most popular classical themes of all times has been skillfully arranged for the new 'Build-A-Band' Series by Scott Stanton. Playable with almost any instrumentation providing you have instr...

Tancredi, composed in 1813, is rarely performed in today's opera houses, however its overture, or Sinfonia, as it was called at the time, is well-liked and has received regular performances over the y...

The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...

This overture to Rosinni's successful 1913 opera, 'Italian in Algiers,' captures his charismatic sparkling melodies in this traditional Lucian Calliet arrangement. In addition to serving as a compelli...