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5 days ago · Barbaia realized Rossini’s growing fame and went to Bologna to offer him a contract. Impressed by the terms of this contract—security, two operas a year—as well as by Barbaia, a millionaire rather than the customary fourth-rate impresario on the verge of bankruptcy, Rossini did not hesitate to accept.
In 1815, he offered Gioacchino Rossini a contract lasting seven seasons, and the composer obliged with ten operas, including Otello, Armida, Mosè in Egitto, Ermione, La donna del lago and Maometto II.
An insurrection in Naples against the monarchy, though quickly crushed, unsettled Rossini; [51] when Barbaia signed a contract to take the company to Vienna, Rossini was glad to join them, but did not reveal to Barbaia that he had no intention of returning to Naples afterwards. [52]
…where the reigning impresario was Domenico Barbaia, an ambitious former coffeehouse waiter who by gambling and running a gaming house had amassed a fortune and was now in charge of the two great Neapolitan theatres. Barbaia realized Rossini’s growing fame and went to Bologna to offer him a contract. Impressed… Read More.
Barbaia realized Rossini's growing fame and went to Bologna to offer him a contract. Impressed by the terms of this contract security, two operas a year as well as by Barbaia, a millionaire rather than the customary fourth rate impresario on the
When Barbaia became impresario at the Kärnthnertortheater in Vienna, Rossini was given the freedom in his Neapolitan contract to travel. In 1822 Rossini went with Zelmira and its cast, including Colbran, to Vienna, where the opera was better received than in Naples.
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An insurrection in Naples against the monarchy, though quickly crushed, unsettled Rossini; when Barbaia signed a contract to take the company to Vienna, Rossini was glad to join them, but did not reveal to Barbaia that he had no intention of returning to Naples afterwards.
