Rossini Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/tag/rossini/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:11:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle Program Notes https://www.tmchoir.org/rossini-petite-messe-solennelle-program-notes/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:58:18 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=904 During the decades of the early 19th century, Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) dominated the world of Italian opera in both the comic and serious categories. The Barber of Seville, Tancredi, Semiramide, Cinderella, The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Silken Ladder, The Thieving Magpie and William Tell are all still staged today.

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]]> Toronto Mendelssohn Choir takes a luxurious view of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle https://www.tmchoir.org/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-takes-a-luxurious-view-of-rossinis-petite-messe-solennelle/ Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:48:36 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=275 Gioachino Rossini would probably have barely recognized his Petite Messe Solennelle as the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir performed it on Saturday afternoon at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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