"Farsa" in One Act by Gherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini
Rossini, Gioacchino
Seta, Fabrizio Della
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Hardcover
Edition: Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas
656 pages
Published: 2001
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN / EAN: 0226728617
Among Rossini's operas Adina has perhaps the most mysterious origins. Commissioned by an unknown Portuguese admirer as a gift for an unknown soprano, the opera develops the popular theme ofthe abduction from the serraglio. Rossini, pressed by the contract
