Naturalism comes to Italian serious opera.
187. La gazza ladra (Rossini)
Category: Italian opera
186. Otello (Rossini)
Rossini's Shakespearean opera is one of his most dramatic works.
185. Il barbiere di Siviglia / The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Rossini's most popular opera.
184. Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Rossini)
Vocal fireworks but little drama in Rossini's Tudor opera.
183. Tancredi (Rossini)
Rossini's breakthrough work.
176. La Cenerentola (Rossini)
For Rossini's 57th birthday: One of his finest operas.
173. Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa)
The Hapsburg Emperor enjoyed this opera buffa so much he saw it twice in one night.
