Here's the Rossini-esque opera duet where the lyrics consist entirely of the word ‘meow’. This hilarious ‘Duetto buffo di due gatti’ (‘Funny duet for two cats’) is said to be the work of Italian opera ...

Operagoers were intoxicated by his frothy comic masterpieces – but at the moment of Rossini's greatest success, the Italian composer stopped writing them. Rossini was one of classical music’s great ...

Isn’t it fun to come across an unexpected delight? I had never heard Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle.” The Italian composer, who died in 1868, is best known for the opera ...

Caroline played a variety of pieces from different albums of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse ... I read somewhere that the young Gioachino, who had narrowly escaped castration suggested by ...

Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and music of Gioachino Rossini. Donald starts by unpacking the winning formula Rossini hit on right at the start of his operatic career. Aged 18 ...