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Rossini's Ghost

With an invisible little girl as his assistant, Gioachino Rossini overcomes the disastrous opening night of The Barber of Seville to give the world one of its most beloved operas.


Adolf Robinson

Other highlights of his career included the title characters in Rossini's William Tell, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Verdi's Rigoletto, Hérold's Zampa, and Heinrich Marschner's Der Templer und die Jüdin.

Alessandro Bonci

On them, he is heard to best advantage in operatic arias by Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Gluck, but he was also renowned in Europe and the United States for his Rodolfo in Puccini's La boheme, his Riccardo in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and his Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Alessandro Corbelli

He has frequently showed his versatility by singing two roles from the same opera: Figaro and the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello and the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Dandini and Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, among others.

Betty Ren Wright

Betty Ren Wright is an author of children's fiction including Christina's Ghost, The Dollhouse Murders, The Ghosts Of Mercy Manor and A Ghost in The House.

Boiko Zvetanov

He began his career with major roles in Verdi operas such as the Duke in Rigoletto, Foresto in Attila and Radames in Aida, also Lindoro in Rossini's Italiana in Algeri, Fernando in Donizetti's La Favorita and Pollione in Bellini's Norma.

Christina's Ghost

Christina's Ghost is a novel written by Betty Ren Wright.

Ciro Pinsuti

He was born in Sinalunga (Siena), Italy, and educated in music, for a career as a pianist, partly in London and partly at Bologna, where he was a pupil of Rossini.

Cristina Deutekom

She also scored triumphant successes in Italy in the great bel canto roles of that era's composers, including Rossini, specifically Armida; in Bellini's Norma and I puritani; and in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

CTE World

Then in 2006 he released his second studio album The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 and in 2007 formed the rap group USDA and signed Slick Pulla, Blood Raw, 211, JW and Boo Rossini to his Corporate Thugz family and released his label's third studio album and USDA's first album Cold Summer (The Authorized Mixtape).

DeMUG Baroque Ensemble

He has degrees in Violin (Conservatorio ‘F. Morlacchi’ in Perugia, Italy), Viola (Conservatorio ‘G. Rossini’ in Pesaro, Italy) and Electronic Music (Conservatorio ‘F. Morlacchi’ in Perugia, Italy), and received a master in Violin from the Conservatorio ‘A. Casella’ in L'Aquila, Italy,

Dragana Jugović del Monaco

Dragana began her singing career in 1982 as a soloist with the Yugoslavian Ensemble Renaissance, and made her operatic debut in 1988 as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.

Factotum

Largo al factotum, an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini

Fanny Corri-Paltoni

Her roles in Milan included Corilla in Francesco Gnecco's La Prova di un, the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola (with the famous bass Luigi Lablache), Rosa in Valentino Fioravanti's Le cantatrici villane, Lisinga in Rossini's Demetrio e Polibio, and Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

Fernando Corena

More serious roles he recorded include the King of Egypt in two recordings of Aida with Renata Tebaldi, Mathieu in Andrea Chénier, also with Tebaldi, two recordings of the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with both Anna Moffo and Leontyne Price, and the Gessler in Rossini's Guglielmo Tell (William Tell) with Giuseppe Taddei and Rosanna Carteri.

Fowler's Ghost

The locomotive was sold to Isaac Watt Boulton in 1865; he intended to convert it into a standard engine, and commissioned drawings for a new conventional boiler and its conversion into standard gauge.

Frederick Rossini

In 1932, Frederick Rossini, Edward W. Washburn, and Mikkel Frandsen authored “The Calorimetric Determination of the Intrinsic Energy of Gases as a Function of the Pressure.”

If You Could Only Cook

The faux couple, calling themselves "Mr. and Mrs. Burns", are soon hired by Michael Rossini (Carrillo).

In Person at El Matador

# Black Orpheus Medley: Manhã de Carnaval/Batuque de Orfeu/Samba de Orfeu/A Felicidade (Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Rossini Pacheco/Luiz Bonfá & Antônio Maria/Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes)

Isaac Chueke

From 1999-2001, he was Resident Conductor at Florida Grand Opera (FGO) where he continued developing his knowledge of the lyrical repertoire, the occasion also to partner with artists such as Deborah Voigt, Renata Scotto, Emily Magee, Irina Mishura, Bliss Hebert, in new productions of Tosca, Otello, Carmen.

John van Kesteren

After completing his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Vera Schwarz in Salzburg, Van Kesteren was invited in 1954 to Berlin's Komische Oper to sing Nurreddin in Cornelius's The Barber of Baghdad under the direction of Walter Felsenstein and to sing the title role in the first performance in Germany of Rossini's Le comte Ory under the direction of Carl Ebert at the Stadtische Oper in 1956.

Karan Ashley

Her first big debut as, editor and executive producer was the independent film Devon's Ghost, alongside fellow Power Ranger alumnus Johnny Yong Bosch and executive producer Koichi Sakamoto for Gag Order Films, Inc.

Lincoln's Ghost

Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Wilhelmina of the Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).

Linton Garner

After moving to Vancouver in 1974, he sang and played the piano in Rossini's restaurant in Kitsilano.

Love with the Proper Stranger

The film tells the story of Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood), a salesclerk at Macy's department store who finds herself pregnant after a brief affair with musician Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen).

Lucilla Udovich

She made other appearances with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, in Verdi's Requiem, and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle; and with the RAI Orchestra in Peter Grimes and Britten's War Requiem, and Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder.

Mark Rossini

The Spy Factory, an episode of the PBS series Nova, included segments of interviews with Rossini, who described his experience serving as one of the two FBI liaisons to the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, an inter-agency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden and his associates.

Rossini also claims Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a manager at the Bin Laden Issue Station, covered for Casey by telling congressional investigators that she walked from her office to FBI Headquarters to deliver the information about al-Mihdhar having a US visa.

Maxim Mironov

-Maometto II, Rossini (2005, DVD) as Erisso
Lorenzo Regazzo, Carmen Giannatasio, Maxim Mironov, Annarita Gemmabella; La Fenice Theatre Orchestra, director Claudio Scimone; Dynamic

Mosè in Egitto

Toye, Francis (reissue 1987), Rossini: The Man and His Music, Dover Publications.

Nan Tuck's Ghost

Nan Tuck's Ghost haunts a lane one mile from Buxted, England, known as Nan Tuck's Lane.

Nazzareno De Angelis

Selections from his recorded output, consisting mainly of operatic arias and duets by Meyerbeer, Halévy, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Gounod, Thomas, Boito, Rossini, and Weber, have been issued by Preiser Records (Lebendige Vergangenheit) on two separate CDs (numbers 89042 and 89507).

Nieuwe Toren, Kampen

About this brass drum in particular is known that the carilloneurs in the past have notated lots of opera melodies with names like Rossini etc.

Njål Sparbo

Among his performances are Mahler’s ”Lieder eines fahrendes Gesellen” with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London, Bach’s ”Christmas Oratorio” with the Drottningholm's Baroque Orchestra in Uppsala and Rossini’s ”Petite Messe Sollenelle” in Köln Philharmonie, Kverno's "St. Matthew Passion" in New York and Manoa in Handel's "Samson" at the London Handel Festival.

Oliver von Dohnányi

During 1986–1991, he was principal conductor of the Slovak National Opera, where he enlarged the Opera's repertoire with the scenic works of Borodin, Puccini, Bellini, Rossini, Smetana and Verdi, as well as conducting the company in an award-winning production of Faust at the Edinburgh Festival (1990).

Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México

They include recordings dedicated to the works of Verdi and Rossini, Mexican and Spanish music, the works of Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel M. Ponce and Carlos Chávez, and the integral series of the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Patrick Süskind

For his screenplay of Rossini, directed by Helmut Dietl, he won the Screenplay Prize of the German Department for Culture in 1996.

Paul Austin Kelly

The role of the dashing Count Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville has become his signature role ever since his debut with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy in 1995.

Paul Hamburger

He was also coach at Glyndebourne Opera, working on Fidelio, Alceste, The Rake’s Progress, Arlecchino, many Rossini and all the Mozart operas.

Prix Rossini

The Prix Rossini for composition was a prize for young librettist and composers which was granted by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Rabbit of Seville

The cartoon, in a plotline reminiscent of Stage Door Cartoon, features Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd into the stage door of the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon Bugs tricks Elmer into going onstage, and participating in a break-neck operatic production of their chase punctuated with gags and accompanied by musical arrangements by Carl Stalling, focusing on Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville.

Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost

The Death of Poor Joe the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character.

Stefano Rossini

Stefano Rossini (born 2 February 1971 in Viadana) is an Italian footballer, who has played for numerous clubs throughout his career.

Sweet William's Ghost

Sir Walter Scott claimed to have been told a similar story by a woman in Shetland, and based his poem Advertisement to the Pirate upon it.

The Kermesse in Bruges

In the scene set in Madame van Everdingen's home, music from Hérold's opera Zampa and Rossini's finale from his opera L'assedio di Corinto are heard.


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