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Gioachino Rossini is one of history's best-loved opera composers, and his overtures are the perfect place to get a flavour of them. Find out why with our guide to his best ones! You can't get very far ...

Gioachino Rossini was an operatic genius, a master of the patter-song, and a provider of operatic joy for generations of audiences. Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a ...

Let's just leave it to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians to characterize Gioachino Rossini's superstar status: "No composer in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed the measure of ...