 He concluded by advising his readers that it was a concert best enjoyed when seen as well as heard.He had been amused, on returning from an evening out with his wife, to find his babysitter and her husband both engrossed in watching its video version on his television.Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Le siège de Corinthe (Paris, 1826), libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet
La donna del lago (Naples, 1819), libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after Walter Scott
La Cenerentola (Rome, 1817), libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
Stabat Mater (Madrid, 1832; Bologna, 1841), text by Jacopone da Todi
Guillaume Tell (Paris, 1829), libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis
Petite messe solennelle (Paris, 1863; orchestration