How to sing Rossini with Mark Elder ( The Royal Opera)

Conductor Mark Elder and mezzosoprano Rachel Kelly explore the music of Rossini through Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Find out more at The 23yearold Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia incredibly quickly legend has it in just 13 days which Rossini attributed to facility and lots of instinct. He drew on PierreAugustin Beaumarchais play Le Barbier de Seville part of a dramatic trilogy that also inspired Mozarts Le