To be a master of either comic opera or bel canto writing would suffice for most composers, but this 19th-century Italian dynamo excelled in both, resulting in some of the most enduring operatic creat…
To be a master of either comic opera or bel canto writing would suffice for most composers, but this 19th-century Italian dynamo excelled in both, resulting in some of the most enduring operatic creat…