Rossini – Neil Kurtzman

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Rossini – Neil Kurtzman is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Rossini – Neil Kurtzman, a general show with 10 episodes published.

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  Una Voce Poco Fa

  Jul 7, 2025—S0

  <p>Rossini’s setting of the first of Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy, The Barber of Seville, is arguably the greatest comic opera ever written. Its zany zest, unparalleled mirth, overwhelming energy, and musical beauty and inventiveness place it in a spot occupied only by the Marx Brothers.</p> <p>The Count Almaviva is infatuated with Rosina, an heiress whom her guardian, the elderly Dr Bartolo, wants to marry for her money. The count, pretending to be a poor student, has gained Rosina’s attention. ‘In Un voce poca fa’, she shows her independence and determination to have the suitor she desires.<...

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  Rossini After Opera

  Jul 5, 2023—S0

  <p>Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was only 37 years old after the premiere of William Tell in 1829. He was the leading operatic composer in the world. Yet for reason still unresolved, he never wrote another opera during the four decades of life which remained to him. He was not mute during this period away from the lyric theater. Producing two large religious pieces and collection of 150 vocal, chamber and solo piano pieces he called Péchés de vieillesse – sins of old age.</p> <p>His Stabat Mater was begun in 1831. Because of illness or laziness, after retiring from the theater he was...

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  Rossini String Sonatas

  Jul 15, 2020—S0

  <p> Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) grew up in a musical and operatic family; his mother was a singer and his father a horn player. He is the only composer to write multiple masterpieces before reaching 25: Tancredi, L’italiana in Algeri, Il turco in Italia, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia, and La Cenerentola. No other composer could match this precocity – Not Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, nor Strauss could come close. How to explain Rossini’s incredible start. Growing up in the theater was a big factor, and genius helped.</p> <p>In 1804, age 12, he wrote six st...

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  Viva Rossini!

  Jul 9, 2019—S0

  <p>During his active phase as an opera composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1968) was the most popular composer of operas throughout the Western World. After his premature retirement from the stage at age 37, he was eclipsed in popularity first by Verdi and then by Puccini. For a while the only opera of his to be regularly performed was The Barber of Seville. Beginning in the second half of the last century up until the present his other operas appeared with increasing regularity in all the world’s opera houses. Today only those of Verdi, Puccini, and Mozart are performed more often.</p>...

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  Donner and Blitzen in Santa Fe Plus L’Italiana in Algeri

  Aug 4, 2018—S0

  <p>On Thursday August 4 there was a terrific thunderstorm over the Crosby Theater of the Santa Fe Opera. The show, appropriately Dr Atomic, continued even though the stage and surrounding area were drenched. The following afternoon an even more explosive storm hit the central area of Santa Fe causing a prolonged blackout. So we went to the theater early to escape the power outage. Everything seemed well until the show was about to start. Then nothing – a subject about which I am an expert.</p> <p>After an interval of several minutes a young woman’s voice told the audience that...

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