The Macon County Arts Council sponsored the concert in Key Park by the Nashville Symphony. Jul 2, 2008
Next was the William Tell Overture by Rossini that most people recognized as The Lone Ranger theme. This was followed by Les Toreados which was from Bizet's most famous opera Carmen. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
MPO does Cinderella Jun 14, 2008
The MPO will also perform Overture: La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini, one of Italys greatest opera composers. This will be followed by an interlude of the youthful and exuberant Violin Concerto No.1 in B flat composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Opera, circus and Bach: only at Spoleto Jun 2, 2008
Rossini's La Cenerentola, a hit from 1817, is a Spoleto co-production with opera houses in Avignon and Vaucluse, which explains its French creative team ... Director Charles Roubaud, set designer Emmanuelle Favre and costume designer Katia Duflot have placed the opera in Rossini's time ... After a lacklustre overture, conductor Matteo Beltrami does find his Rossini feet, but he loses balance when those famous Rossini crescendi drown out the singers. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
At Spoleto Festival, Revisiting a Fateful Chapter in Slavery May 25, 2008
Rossini s Cenerentola and Monkey: Journey to the West, a pop opera incorporating martial arts, acrobatics, singing and video projections, opened on Friday night. In an interview on Friday, Mr. Davis, the composer, said a number of white Charleston residents had mentioned to him how painful it was to hear the harshly derogatory language thrown at the Africans by white characters. (New York Times)
Chorale sings songs of the sea May 22, 2008
The chorale will also render Rossini s William Tell Overture and a nod to spring, Make Our Garden Grow, from Candide. Songs will include ensemble number and solos. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
Events listings May 18, 2008
6/6-6/7: 8 p.m. 6/8: 2:30 p.m. "A Tribute to Gioachino Rossini." $23, seniors $18, students $15, under 11 $13 ... Matthew Fritz conducts Rossini's Overture to "The Barber of Seville," Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4. (Boston Globe)
Faculty, alumni elected to American Philosophical Society May 16, 2008
A music historian, Gossett has specialized in the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi. He has authored two books on Donizetti, and he serves as general editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi and the Works of Gioachino Rossini ... Among the operas he has edited or co-edited are Rossini s Tancredi, Ermione and Semiramide. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Chorus of Westerly presents Honegger's "King David" May 10, 2008
Last season, she was a soloist for the Rossini "Stabat Mater" with for the AVA Jubilate program. More recently, Hsiung performed Mahler s "Das Lied von der Erde" at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Memorial Day concert features Lebanon vocalist May 8, 2008
Other program numbers include Fanfare for Freedom by Morton Gould, who composed it during WWII for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; the William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, parts of which became famous as the theme song for The Lone Ranger radio and television programs; and Folk Suite by well-known African American composer William Grant Still. The Sandpaper Ballet by Leroy Anderson will celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth, while Big Band Bash will feature well-known... (Lebanon Express, OR)
Caruso gets crunked May 5, 2008
One would probably envision these stiff singers trying to attempt rapping out Rossini recitative to a drum track, or Queen of the Night coloratura with a hip-hop bass line as the orchestra. But as awkward as our first session for the opera and urban collaboration (performed as part of the Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre) was, we seemed to find common ground almost immediately. (National Post)
University Press awards Gossett’s Divas and Scholars May 2, 2008
Gossett, the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, is the world s leading authority on 19th-century Italian opera specifically the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi ... In 1968, the University s former music librarian, Hans Lenneberg, greeted the young Assistant Professor with a manuscript of ornaments prepared by Rossini himself ... The author of two books on Donizetti, Gossett serves as general editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (published... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Sharp vocal performances undone by all the lather Apr 18, 2008
By Gioacchino Rossini ... There are elements, mainly pictorial and musical, of a happy and amusing Barber of Seville in the Canadian Opera Company's revival of its 1999 production of Rossini's comic masterpiece, which opened Wednesday at the Four Seasons Centre ... His lively, vigorous baritone is capable of managing the flights of Rossini's vocal line without sacrificing a single ounce of the barber's clever, amused masculinity. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Spoleto gearing up for artful performances Apr 13, 2008
Gioachino Rossini's "La Cenerentola" is the third and final opera I will be reviewing. This version of the classic tale of Cinderella premiered in Rome in 1817, a year after his "Barber of Seville." Instead of a fairy godmother and glass slippers, Rossini uses philosophers and magic bracelets. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Rhythmic Vitality Apr 10, 2008
The first-year Adler Fellow wound up her program with a set of songs from her native Argentina, and filled out the program with familiar fare by Rossini and Debussy ... In the opening rendition of Rossini's "Venetian Regatta" - as in just about every opening selection in the history of this series - Mack and Grunberg both struggled to adjust to the hall's acoustics. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Radio & TV (30) Apr 7, 2008
7 p.m.: Rossini s final opera William Tell, based on the life of the 14th Century legendary hero, from the Parco della Musica in Rome on NPR World of Opera. Monday, April 7. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Meet Viardot Mar 16, 2008
Her father, Manuel Garca, was a well-known tenor for whom Rossini had written the part of Count Almaviva in his hit opera "The Barber of Seville," and her mother was a soprano of note. Originally, the family tradition was carried on by her sister, Maria Malibran, her elder by 13 years and a leading performer of the works of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti ... She took to it like a natural, making her operatic debut three years later as Desdemona in Rossini's "Otello" - the same role that had... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Eh, what's up, maestro? Mar 2, 2008
Daugherty says that these scores -- from Carl W. Stalling and Milt Franklyn -- are pure genius in how they weave the works of Wagner, Rossini, Liszt, Johann Strauss and other classical composers ... Example: "The Rabbit of Seville" (1950) is based on Rossini's overture to "The Barber of Seville." The action starts with the warm-up strains of an orchestra preparing to play the overture for the opera. (Fresno Bee)
Welcome reprise of Kudelka gem Feb 29, 2008
This second coming of An Italian Straw Hat also reacquaints us with Michael Torke's effervescent score inspired by Rossini and opera buffo. Conductor David Briskin finds the right touch in capturing Torke's melodious wit without being heavy-handed. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Anybody famous have b-day today? Feb 29, 2008
Italian opera composer Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, 1792. Sculptor Augusta Christine Savage, 1892. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Celebration Concert returns to Good Life City Feb 28, 2008
Saturday s program also includes Samuel Coleridge-Taylor s Four Novelletas, Frederic Hymen Cowen s Rustic from Four English Dances and Gioachino Rossini s String Sonata No. 1 in G major. Started a decade ago, the free Celebration Concert series brings classical music to Southwest Georgians who might not otherwise attend a symphony concert. (Albany Herald)
Conductor set for Pyongyang moment Feb 25, 2008
BEIJING, Feb. 25 -- Lorin Maazel received thunderous applause over the weekend from music fans in Beijing, as the New York Philharmonic under the baton of the 77-year-old conductor played a mixed program featuring the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and Brahms. And at the climax of the two concerts, Maazel rewarded his adoring fans with several encores, including Bizet's L'arlesienne. (Xinhuanet, China)
An athletic and vigorous show (from a slightly hobbled maestro) Feb 24, 2008
Best of all was the finale, which Wolff attacked with a pause and drove through with all the breathless high spirits of a Rossini overture. The concert led off with two short and disappointingly lightweight scores by living composers. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pittsburgh Opera season leans heavily on drama Feb 17, 2008
As the Pittsburgh Opera unveils its 2008-09 season, it promises to challenge audiences and itself with a new opera and three classics whose music tugs not only at the heart but at our psyche: Camille Saint-Saens' "Samson & Dalila," Ricky Ian Gordon's "The Grapes of Wrath," Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" and Gioachino Rossini's "The Italian Girl in Algiers." ... May 2-10, 2009: "The Italian Girl in Algiers" by Gioachino Rossini. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Communty news briefs: Horsemanship classes being offered Feb 15, 2008
Lunch will be at noon, followed by the Operafest at 1, featuring favorite arias by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and more. The program, sponsored through a donation by Merle and Theresa Fischlowitz, is designed to bring opera's best moments to life for all audiences. (North County Times)
Opera Iowa meets Harrison County Third Graders Feb 14, 2008
Students will then move to Missouri Valley High School Auditorium to be introduced to Opera as the eight-member troupe performs The Three Billy Goats Gruff utilizing music by Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti. Schools participating include: West Harrison Community School, Missouri Valley Elementary School, St. Patrick's School, Woodbine Community School and Boyer Valley Elementary School. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
* NY Philharmonic begins tour of Asia with Taipei concert Feb 12, 2008
Maazel will conduct the orchestra in playing works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini and Tchaikovsky. Soloists include Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, principal horn Philip Myers, and guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The Air This Week Jan 22, 2008
1:30 p.m. Frederic Chaslin/Metropolitan Opera, live from New York City: Rossini "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (Elena Garanca, Michael Schade, Franco Vassallo, Bruno Pratico, Peter Rose) (WHRB, BBC Radio 3, WQXR, Sirius satellite radio, etc. . (Boston Globe)
Opera diva Marilyn Horne discusses experimental cancer treatment Jan 20, 2008
In 1964 came Horne's debut at London's Covent Garden, followed by more than three decades of performances in works by Handel and Rossini she resurrected from near-oblivion. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1970 in Bellini's "Norma.". (North County Times)
Anachronism that's still worth a look Jan 14, 2008
In some respects it is surprising that Rossini's La Cenerentola continues to be performed at all by major opera companies: the survival of this pantomime work is a testament to opera's fidelity to its bel canto roots and its determination never to be taken entirely seriously as an art form. When Rossini wrote it in 1817, it was a manifestation of popular escapism from the grimness of post-Napoleonic regimes, and he weaves together unreconstructed enlightenment ideals about clemency and virtuous... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
La Cenerentola Jan 14, 2008
When Rossini wrote it in 1817, it was a manifestation of popular escapism from the grimness of post-Napoleonic regimes, and he weaves together unreconstructed enlightenment ideals about clemency and virtuous rulers which were an anachronism in their time and whose contemporary relevance is doubly questionable ... As Angelina (Cinderella), Dominica Matthews is a promising coloratura mezzo soprano who, in the simple arias of Act I, had warmth without wobble and, in the virtuosic closing... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Luminous out of the limelight Dec 27, 2007
Gelmetti brought some wonderful singers - Daniela Barcellona, Anna Rita Taliento and the charming Vittorio Grigolo - for a Rossini celebration but his Beethoven Festival in May and June was routine. I got to try my thumbs at Play. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Paris library to unveil 1907 opera recordings by Caruso, Melba Dec 18, 2007
EMI, heir to the Gramophone Company, plans to create a recording of the works from the urns, including music by Bizet, Gounod, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. EMI also plans to create a new time capsule of great music to be preserved for another 100 years. (CBC.ca)
Wagnerian dramaPassion, confrontation and theatrics on and off stage at La Scala Dec 9, 2007
" Phoenix-like As we passed through the labyrinth of corridors and rehearsal rooms of the newly refurbished La Scala, I remembered that the opera house - originally built at the end of the 18th Century and twice in its history gutted by fire - had recently been closed for three years while the entire stage complex was rebuilt to modern standards. Members of the 135-strong orchestra threatened to disrupt the opening night with a strike Around a stage that looks the size of a football pitch, huge... (BBC News -- Europe)
Elgar Cello Concerto Dec 8, 2007
From its eerie "ghost" music to pastiche quotes of Mozart and Rossini to inspired melodies, the piece was something to sing about, too. Post-Gazette classical music critic Andrew Druckenbrod can be reached at or 412-263-1750. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Rossini's Mose in Egitto Nov 18, 2007
Moses in Egypt, an Italian Opera in Three Acts by Gioachino Rossini. Mos in Egitto (Moses in Egypt), an Italian or French tragic (seria) opera by Gioachino Rossini: opera plot synopsis, character description, and other Rossini opera infor ... Gioachino Rossini's opera Mos in Egitto (Moses in Egypt), a tragic opera in three acts. (Suite101.com)
Rossini's Le Comte Ory Nov 15, 2007
The Count Ory, an French Comic Opera in Two Acts by Rossini. Le Comte Ory (The Count Ory), a French comic opera by Gioachino Rossini: opera plot synopsis, character description, and other Rossini opera information ... Gioachino Rossini's opera Le Comte Ory (The Count Ory), a comic opera in two acts. (Suite101.com)
Before all the walls were pulled down Nov 8, 2007
" Other single-subject albums Buck 65's album-long fixation with the year 1957 (on his new disc, Situation) joins a growing list of albums that focus on a single subject, or more narrowly on part of the alphabet or musical vocabulary. Here's a short guide to recent symptoms of pop monomania. The Magnetic Fields The New York quartet, led by Stephin Merritt, put out a three-CD set of songs about the heart and its attractions in 1999, entitled 69 Love Songs (Merge). Unaccountably, they failed to... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ottorino Respighi's Rome Nov 3, 2007
Ballet, La Boutique fantasque (The Fantastic Toyshop), based on music by Rossini 1919. Ballet, La bella dormente nel bosco 1921. (Suite101.com)
Il Signor Bruschino Rossini Opera Nov 2, 2007
Rossini's Comic Opera (Farce) 'Son By Chance' in One Act. Il Signor Bruschino (Son by Chance), an Italian opera by Gioachino Rossini: opera plot synopsis, character description, and other Rossini opera informatio ... Gioachino Rossini's comic opera (operatic farce) Il Signor Bruschino (Son by chance or Mister Bruschine). (Suite101.com)
Regional calendar Nov. 1 edition Nov 2, 2007
Repertoire highlights run the gamut from Pergolesi to Rossini, Barber, Schnberg, Stravinsky, Mozart, Wagner, Bruckner and more. Tickets online at www. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
New York Philharmonic Announces Asia 2008, February 11-24, 2008; First Tour with Global Sponsor Credit Suisse Nov 1, 2007
Mr. Maazel will conduct the Orchestra in works by Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvok, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky. Soloists include Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, Principal Horn Philip Myers, and guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Opera guild to preview Cinderella’ Oct 20, 2007
CORVALLIS The Linn-Benton Opera Guild will preview the opera Cinderella, by Gioachino Rossini, at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 on the Oregon State University campus, 303 Benton Hall. OSU music professor Angela Carlson will tell the story of the opera and play recorded excerpts from the score. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Rome Film Festival kicks off Oct 20, 2007
"I hope I deserve this," said a modest-sounding Loren, decked out in shiny black ballgown, before leaving the stage to Bocelli, who belted out classical arias by Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, used in film scores of "A Clockwork Orange," "Analyze This," and Federico Fellini's "And the Ship Sails On.". Bellucci stars in Gallic gangster pic "Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Wind), Alain Corneau's quasi-operatic remake of the 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville original. Pic does not have an Italo distributor.In... (Variety)
Killer queen Oct 19, 2007
Mayr's Medea in Corinto was produced in Naples in 1813, the title role taken by Isabella Colbran, who a few years later became the first Mrs Rossini. It has received a few well-deserved revivals in recent times, but Cherubini's M;d;e, first heard in Paris in 1797, has proved hardier, thanks mainly to Maria Callas, who from 1953 made it one of her greatest roles. (Guardian Unlimited)
Vincenzo Bellini Oct 18, 2007
Two years after he wrote Norma, he travelled to London and Paris, where he met and befriended Gioachino Rossini and Fr;d;ric Chopin. Like and , he also died in his thirties. (Suite101.com)
Opera food takes center stage Oct 17, 2007
Gioacchino Rossini, whose works include The Barber of Seville and William Tell, was an engaging and personable man who enjoyed the kind of adoration known by Pavarotti more than a century later ... The composer had a particular enthusiasm for foie gras and truffles and those luxurious ingredients show up in several Rossini-named egg and chicken recipes as well as a unique pasta dish: At his dinner parties, the maestro would stuff cooked macaroni with foie gras and truffles and serve them... (Greenwich Time)
Mackerras returns to home turf Oct 8, 2007
" However, apart from his own concerts, there's another musical reason Mackerras is in Sydney. His nephew, Alexander Briger, is flying from London to conduct two performances of Don John of Austria, the first opera to be written and staged in Australia, back in 1847. Mackerras and Briger are direct descendants of the man who wrote it, Isaac Nathan, 00004000 generally regarded as the first professional musician to live in Australia. Nathan, born in Kent in 1790 ("which makes him an exact... (Sydney Morning Herald)
La Scala Philharmonic Ground Zero concert features Italian composers as salute to New York Oct 2, 2007
The Oct. 14 concert features pieces from Rossini's "Guglielmo Tell," Verdi's "I Vespri Siciliani," Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" and Respighi's "Pini di Roma." The concert, to be held at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, will be less than an hour long, Chailly said ... The traveling program features works that emphasize La Scala Philharmonic's operatic heritage, including pieces by Wagner, Rota, Respighi and Rossini, presented in varying combinations. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
300 singing candles for Carlo Goldoni Oct 1, 2007
" Venice is also a crossroads of the Eastern and the Western worlds, as is Mosca's sound. "In my musical language it works," he said. "Signor Goldoni" was commissioned two years ago. Though the 18th-century playwright wrote several librettos for opera (most famously set to music by various composers including Rossini - who worked on a libretto by Giuseppe Palomba based on Goldoni - and Haydn), the Venetian opera house opted not to go for a known work when it came time for the tri-centenary... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Salt Marsh Opera presents crowd-pleasing 'Barber of Seville' Sep 29, 2007
Salt Marsh Opera will open its seventh season with Rossini s "Il barbiere di Siviglia." ... Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) remains the epitome of the Italian comic opera composer, and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" is arguably his masterpiece. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Famed Russian chorus to appear in Sioux City Sep 28, 2007
"This tour will feature the works of Bortniansky, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Rossini and Leoncavallo," he said. "Previously, the group has performed Russian folk songs, but for the U.S. tour, Polyansky wishes to focus on the classical, which is far more challenging.". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
What Pavarotti's Eulogists Wouldn't Say Sep 20, 2007
He had a fabled summer home in Pesaro, the home of the Rossini Opera Festival, but only once did he agree to sing for the Festival, in a concert that mostly featured the white handkerchief. Was he prepared to try his hand at some Rossini role on the Adriatic stage. (New Republic)
Legend lives on| Sep 16, 2007
And vocally the "prima donna assoluta" excelled both as a tragic lyric artist (Cherubini's 'Medea') and in early 19th century Italian bel canto typified by Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti. Often best remembered for Bellini's 'Norma' and her rendition of 'Casta diva', she helped prompt the renaissance of ornate bel canto. (iAfrica.com)
Esteemed Stonington writer previews latest work Sep 15, 2007
The Salt Marsh Opera will provide the Arts Caf; s musical preview, performing excerpts from its October production of Rossini s "The Barber of Seville" at the Chorus of Westerly s George Kent Performance Hall. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are 8 at the door ( 6 for seniors and 4 for students). (Westerly Sun, RI)
Music stars, masses mourn Pavarotti Sep 10, 2007
Tenor Andrea Bocelli sang Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" while the Rossini Chorus performed hymns throughout the service, which was celebrated by Modena Archbishop Benito Cocchi and 18 other priests. Bulgarian-born soprano Raina Kabaivanska, a fellow Modena resident who had worked with Pavarotti, cried as she sang the "Ave Maria" from Verdi's "Otello" as the ceremony began. (CNN -- International)
Remembering a Tenor Sep 9, 2007
Tenor Andrea Bocelli sang Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus." The Rossini Chorus performed hymns throughout the service, which was celebrated by Modena Archbishop Benito Cocchi and 18 other priests. Cocchi said the presence of so many dignitaries at the funeral was a sign "of the esteem, of the affection and of the gratitude that universally surrounds the great artist.". (Fox News)
Fall Arts Preview Sep 9, 2007
1/28: 7 p.m. Semi-staged performance of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." The Orchestra of Indian Hill Littleton Performing Arts Center, 56 King St., Littleton ... JoAnn Falletta conducts works by Rossini, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Pavarotti given final ovation at tearful funeral Sep 9, 2007
The choir -- Corale Rossini -- was the same one in which both Pavarotti and his father once sang. EXCEPTIONAL GIFT. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Pavarotti applauded at funeral Sep 9, 2007
The choir - Corale Rossini - was the same one in which both Pavarotti and his father once sang. Divine gift'Pope Benedict XVI sent a message of condolence to the funeral, saying Pavarotti had "honoured the divine gift of music through his extraordinary interpretative talent". (Aljazeera.Net)
Thousands celebrate Pavarotti's art and humanity Sep 9, 2007
The Corale Rossini, the local choir in which Pavarotti sang in the 1950s, accompanied the entrance of the 18 celebrants and other hymns during the 90-minute Mass. Personal reflections from his widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, her daughter and his daughters from his first marriage, to Adua Veroni, were read. (International Herald Tribune)
Pavarotti discography Sep 8, 2007
"Guglielmo Tell," Rossini; Chailly; Pavarotti, Freni, Milnes, Ghiaurov, National Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca). "Aida," Verdi; Maazel; Chiara, Pavarotti, Dimitrova, Nucci, Burchuladze, Orchestra of Teatro all La Scala (Decca). (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
World Bids Farewell to Luciano Pavarotti Sep 8, 2007
Tenor Andrea Bocelli was to sing Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" while the Rossini Chorus performed hymns throughout the service, which was celebrated by Modena Archbishop Benito Cocchi and 18 other priests. Pavarotti's body, dressed in a black tuxedo and with his hands clutching his trademark white handkerchief, had been on public display inside the cathdral since Thursday night. (Newsmax)
Pavarotti: Opera's Babe Ruth Sep 7, 2007
"That capacity to sing legato - to phrase an aria the way a Shakespearean might shape a soliloquy - was something Pavarotti honed in his native Modena where he was born on Oct. 12, 1935, the son of Fernando Pavarotti, a baker who sang tenor in church choirs as well as the local opera chorus.The senior Pavarotti introduced his son to his singing groups, including the Rossini Chorus of Modena, which won the top prize at the International Choirs' Festival in Llangollen, Wales, in 1955, spurring the... (The Journal News / Lohud.com)
Obituary: Luciano Pavarotti Sep 6, 2007
His father, Fernando, was a baker with a vast record collection who sang tenor in his spare time in the Corale Rossini, a local chorus; his mother worked in a tobacco factory ... The young Luciano joined the Corale Rossini and sang alongside his father in his mid-teens. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti, 71, loses battle with cancer Sep 6, 2007
These qualities made the singer an ideal choice for lyric roles in Puccini and Verdi and the bel canto works of Donizetti, Rossini and Bellini, and also enhanced the mass appeal that Pavarotti exploited so cannily. When he and Domingo formed the Three Tenors with Jose Carreras in 1990, they paved the way for numerous tenor trios and groupings, not to mention crossover acts from Andrea Bocelli to the current "popera" quartet Il Divo. (USA Today -- Life)
