Semiramide was Rossini’s last opera before he moved to Paris, and although not his last opera written in Italian (which was Il viaggio a Reims), it is considered his last ‘Italian opera’ and marks the end of a vast period of his writing. Unlike his predecessor Mozart, Rossini was actually famous during his lifetime and advertising a new work with his name as composer would bring an audience. In part this was due to his return to the virtuosic vocal writing made famous in the Baroque era, but people also enjoyed the fact-paced and high-spirited works he was known to write, with comedies such
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