Tag Archive: 0Gioachino Rossini

Just back from Minneapolis, and the RBMS Preconference, where the theme, as I mentioned before, was “Performance in Special Collections”.  I like to try and find material relating to the history of performance, both in music and the theatre, and my library customers in particular are always looking for things they can use for exhibitions, […]

I’d never heard of this opera until I found this, a first edition of the libretto (Ivanhoé, opéra en trois actes, imité de l’Anglais, Paris, 1826), by Émile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly after Sir Walter Scott’s novel, in a striking contemporary binding.  Rather than its being an original opera by Rossini, it was a […]