1801–63, French The French soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau was only 15 when she made her debut at the Théâtre Italien in 1816 in Vicente Martín y Soler’s (1754–1806) 30-year-old opera Una cosa rara (‘A Rare Thing’, 1786). Ten years later, Cinti-Damoreau created several leading roles at the Paris Opéra, for example in Rossini’s La siège de Corinthe (‘The Siege ...
1760–1842, Italian The Italian composer Luigi Cherubini studied in Florence, Bologna and Milan, first writing church music, and then, in 1779, producing his first operas. By 1787, when he settled in Paris, he had written 13 operas, but nothing, as yet, that was innovatory. This changed when his Démophon (1788) ...
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