Mario Petri - autor

A fine Rossini opera, once very famous especially for the noble Prayer of Moses, but neglected in the 20th century along with the rest of Rossini s non-comic operas. This 1968 revival in Munich with an international cast of major-name singers...

Among Rossini s numerous comic operas, La Cenerentola (1817) has long held a place second only to The Barber of Seville. In fact, for many years it was often more popular than The Barber, until its extreme vocal difficulties became too much for...