How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition Season 1 Episode 37 19th-Century Italian Opera

November 1, 2023
46 min

In this lecture, early 19th-century Italian opera is examined as a popular art, the product of a highly profitable media industry. The style of this opera is called bel canto; its essential composers were Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gioacchino Rossini. Rossini's opera Il Barbieri de Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), is used as an example of the bel canto style.

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