They began a relationship in More about this in the section on his spa stays. In March , a remarkable incident took place at this address. The year-old Richard Wagner visited the year-old Rossini. He reported that most of the conversation revolved around the reform of European opera. The building still stands and a commemorative plaque can be spied between two balconies on the second floor.
This restaurant was a famous and expensive restaurant on the Boulevard des Italiens. The restaurant has not existed since , the building still stands but now houses the French Post Office. This gigantic Parisian institution was the most professional opera house in the world at the time.
Unfortunately, this opera house can no longer be visited, because it too met the fate of a devastating fire in , which raged for 27 hours and completely destroyed it. When Tell refuses, Gessler orders his son to be killed. Tell is moved and blesses his son. He is handed the crossbow and the quiver and secretly sticks a second arrow into his jacket. Once again Tell goes to his son and asks him to stand still and pray to God.
Touchingly accompanied by a solo cello, Tell sings the moving words. Astonished, he notes that the young lady takes a lot of liberties and generously decorates the aria to her taste.
After enthusiastic applause from the audience, Rossini maliciously asks the young woman what she has sung. The surprised Patti says: «But Monsieur, it is your piece». To which Rossini returns one of his famous Bon mots: «Moi? Impossible, that was a Strako-mess. Patti learns her lessons from this incident and a few days later goes to Rossini to get fatherly advice from him. The next time she sings Rosina, he sits in the theatre.
His comment is a simple «adorable». A few years later Rossini dies and Patti sings his mass «Stabat Mater» at the funeral. Charles Gounod, the creator of «Faust», then sits as a listener in the church.
He later describes this Patti-moment as his heavenly moment of his life. Adelina Patti:. The basic cause of his many ailments was gonorrhea, which he contracted relatively early in his life. In his Paris years, from the age of 35, the ailments became increasingly chronic and sometimes very painful. These included abdominal complaints, bronchitis and heart weaknesses, which were aggravated by obesity.
Rossini had, probably triggered by the chronic pain, sometimes severe depression and suicidal thoughts. In order to find relief from his pain, Rossini often went to Spas. In the summer of , Rossini, who was chronically ill, visited spas in the Black Forest with his wife Olympe on the advice of his doctors. At first he went to the spa in Wildbad and then to Bad Kissingen to drink ferruginous water.
Actually he wanted to travel incognito, but the very next afternoon he had to appear on the balcony because he was serenaded. A sign on the building reminds of the high visit from Paris. Rossini finally died in at his home in Plassy as a result of an operation for rectal cancer. Rossini lived in a villa on the edge of Passy Park in the 16th arrondissement during the summer months from onwards. He died there in In May , his remains were transferred to Florence. Florence offered Rossini a certain amount of time as a refuge after his troubled time in Bologna, but otherwise did not play a major role in his biography.
Francesco of Assisi is said to have laid the foundation stone of this church. It is created from marble stone and decorated with gold. It depicts Italy in mourning, personified by a woman. He was moved to Florence in to the church of Santa Croce. He died from complications of an operation on his rectal cancer. The cause was an undisinfected tool.
Rossini was able to establish himself early and had no particular rivalries. He did not hold the music of Richard Wagner in very high esteem. Rossini got along very well with Donizetti.
He held Beethoven in high esteem and met him in He had met many musicians regularly in his salon. For Rossini, libretti were not so important and he had over 20 different librettists assigned to him by the theaters for his over thirty works.
Gioachino Rossini a biography in words and pictures. The places where Rossini worked and the most important people of his life.
Biografic timetable Click for more informations. The family moves for two years to Lugo, the birthplace of his father. Diligent study of music. When Gioachino is 12 years old, the family moves to Bologna to allow Gioachino to study music. Rossini ceaselessly produces work after work for a dozen theaters. Rossini visits Vienna. The acclaimed composer meets Beethoven. Rossini returns to Bologna and marries the famous soprano Isabelle Colbran.
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Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to search Help. Home People Gioachino Rossini. Who was the Barber of Seville? View more news and features. In , he went to Vienna and performed many operas in German. In the same year, he then married the famous singer Isabella Colbran, who starred in many of his operas.
When he stopped receiving appreciation from the local audiences he stop writing for his native country and moved to England where he was royally welcomed and received good fortunes for his performances. In , he modified some of his old operas for the newly appointed Pope, Pius IX. Sadly his health continued to decline and he was later diagnosed with cancer in He then went through two surgeries and was expected to return to his full health but he could never fully regain his health.
He died on November 13, in Passy and was buried in Paris.
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