The Life of Rossini

duced at the Teatro Valle, "Torvaldo e Dorliska;" composed for Remorini and Galli, the two best bass singers of the day, Donzelli, the celebrated tenor, and Mad

st clarinet was a barber, who habitually shaved Rossini. In proof of the composer's admirable presence of mind, it is narrated that, annoyed and irritated as he was at the rehearsals by the inability of the

ufficient warmth to satisfy Rossini. On "Sigismondo" being hissed at Venice, Rossini had sent his

ietta Garcia, the future Malibran, and the composer borrowed from it the motive of the magnificent letter duet in "Otello." The moderate success of the work is partly to b

and the little attention paid to the former, may partly no doubt be explained by