Rossini Collection

Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer, best known for his operas

ADELINA PATTI 1843-1919
ADELINA PATTI American operatic soprano born in Madrid of Italian parentage. Sang roles in operas of Bellini, Rossini and Gounod

Rossinis Villa Passy
ROSSINIs villa at Passy Date: 1859

Mme Adelina Patti
ADELINA PATTI American operatic soprano born in Madrid of Italian parentage. Sang roles in operas of Bellini, Rossini and Gounod

Rossini Balestrieri
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI composing his opera Il Barbieri di Seviglia, first performed on 20 February 1816

Italian Archways
This engraving shows a pair of large archways linking an enclosed city area in Italy, figures can be seen conversing in the foreground. Date: circa 1820

Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance painter, 1471-1528. From a self portrait woodcut. Lithograph after a drawing by HVH from Portraits of the most celebrated painters of all the schools, Ackermann

Music cover, Oysters Sir, sung by Miss Graddon
Music cover, Oysters Sir, composed by Rossini, sung by Miss Graddon at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London. 1827

French baritone Paul Barroilhet as Iago in Othello, 1844
French baritone Paul Barroilhet as Iago in the opera Othello by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale du Musique, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor

Ballet dancer in Scottish costume in Robert Bruce, 1846
Ballet dancer in Scottish costume in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bettini as Arthur in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce, 1846
Italian tenor Geremia Bettini as Arthur in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Paul-Bernard Barroilhet in Robert Bruce, 1846
French baritone Paul-Bernard Barroilhet in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Soprano singer Mlle. Maria Nau as Nelly in Robert Bruce
Soprano singer Mlle. Maria Nau as Nelly in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Tenor singer Louis Paulin as King Edward II in Robert Bruce
Tenor singer Louis Paulin as King Edward II of England in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

A page in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets Galerie

Ballet dancer Mlle. Maria Jacob in Robert Bruce, 1846
Ballet dancer Mlle. Maria Jacob in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bass opera singer Bessin as Dickson in Robert Bruce
Bass opera singer Bessin as Dickson in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Mezzo soprano Rosine Stoltz as Marie in Robert Bruce
Mezzo soprano Rosine Stoltz as Marie in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Bass singer Raffaele Anconi as Douglas in Robert Bruce
Bass singer Raffaele Anconi as Douglas in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846

Joseph-Isidore Samson as Figaro in Le Barbier
French actor Joseph-Isidore Samson as the barber Figaro in the opera Le Barbier de Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Theatre Royal de l Odeon, 1823. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Madame Montano as Rosine in the opera Le Barbier de Seville
Contralto singer Madame Montano as Rosine in the opera Le Barbier de Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Theatre Royal de l Odeon, 1823. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, Verdi
Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, by Verdi, arranged for piano by Rudolf Nordmann. Date: late 19th century

Gertrude Callam, as Rosina
Gertrude Callam, soprano, as Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini Date: March 1927

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792 - 1868), Italian composer in Napoli. Date: 1820

Miss Nellie Rennisons Swiss Ladies Orchestra, with a programme of music including pieces by Rossini, Nilssen and Sullivan. Also including four solo female singers. circa 1905

Music cover, The Sultans March, by Rossini
Music cover, The Sultans March, composed by Rossini, for Abdulmecid I, Sultan of the Turks (1823-1861). circa 1850s

Mme Merey / Rossini
MADAME MEREY Opera singer as Rosina in Rossinis Barber of Seville Date: 19th century

Rossini / Engraving / W. Read
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI Italian Musician. Date: 1792 - 1868

ROSSINI 1868
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI, the Italian composer in old age Date: 1792 - 1868

Luigi Zamboni
LUIGI ZAMBONI Italian operatic singer, notable for his performance of Figaro in Rossinis Barbiere di Seviglia. Date: 1772 - 1795

Henry Russell
HENRY RUSSELL - song-writer who studied with Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, wrote The old armchair and Woodman, spare that tree ! Date: 1812 - 1900

ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Italian composer. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Italian composer. Portrait of Gioacchino Rossini. Engraving

Ye Olde Swiss Cottage
Ye Old Swiss Cottage, an old inn in north west London, reputed to have been named after Rossinis opera Le Chalet. It was frequented by Charles Dickens. Date: 19th century

Matilde di Shabran
A scene from Matilde di Shabran, an opera by Rossini, performed at the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden, London, in 1854

Rossini, Gioachino Antonio 1792 - 1868
Gioachino Antonio Rossini. Italian composer in Paris in 1865

Figaro Caricatured
LE FIGARO French newspaper caricatured as a rather run-down Figaro character from the operas of Mozart and Rossini

Rossini / Kyrie / Orch Score
First page of a full orchestral score, listing woodwind, brass, strings, four-part chorus and organ

Writing Example / Rossini
A letter of thanks from the Italian composer to a friend, written in French

ROSSINI, SET FOR TELL
A strikingly naturalistic set for the second act, at La Scala, Milano

Rossini / Tell / Trio
The celebrated trio from Act Two in which Tell, Walter and Arnold swear to free Switzer- land from the Austrian yoke, which they will do before the final curtain falls

Rossini / Tell / Liebig 6
Act Four : the Swiss rebel against the Austrians, and Tell shoots Gessler. The storm abates, the sun shines, Tell rejoins his family, Switzerland is free at last !

Rossini / Tell / Liebig 4
Act Three : Gessler orders Tell to shoot an apple off his sons head : he does so, but tells Gessler that had he hit his son, his second arrow would have been for Gessler

Rossini / Tell / Liebig 3
Act Two: Tell, Walter and Arnold swear to free Switzerland from the Austrian yoke; the cantons gather in support. Date: first performed 1829

Rossini / Tell / Liebig 1
Act One : Tell, in his village, reflects on the oppressive Austrian domination of his country

Covent Garden 1847
Old Covent Garden Theatre - during a performance of the opera Semiramide by Rossini

Rossini / Comte Ory
The final scene, where the perfidy of the Count is revealed and all ends more or less happily

Rossini / Barbiere / Liebig
Scenes from the opera, with the composers portrait

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