Rossini’s “Ivanhoe”
10th July 2012
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 […]
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