Who says that Cinderella needs a pair of glass slippers? In 1817, when Gioachino Rossini penned an opera drawn from the fairy tale, the Italian composer did not include the heroine’s famous footwear.
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 ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. You’ve probably already heard Gioachino Rossini’s early comedy The Silken Ladder (La Scala di Seta). Well, ...