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Jeering, catcalls, and a wandering cat - the birth of Rossini's Barber of Seville

Richard Osborne
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Richard Osborne looks back at the disastrous first performance of Rossini's masterpiece

Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini

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