Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The first idea for this book had come to her in Italy, when she looked at Rosa's pictures in galleries, and learned that he had also been a satirist of the established political order. She...
Timeline
1816: Gioacchino Rossini's opera Il Barbiere di...
Building item
1816
Gioacchino Rossini
's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) had its first performance in Rome; its libretto, by Beaumarchais
, is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, set by Mozart
.
6 April 1847: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance...