Giacomo Meyerbeer his family. He arrived in Italy at the beginning of 1816, after visits to Paris and London, where he heard Cramer play. In Paris, he wrote to a friend, 'I go from museum to museum, library to library, theatre to theatre, with the restlessness of the Wandering Jew'. During his years in Italy Meyerbeer became acquainted with, and impressed by, the works of his contemporary Gioachino Rossini, who by 1816, at the age of 24, was already director of both major opera houses in Naples and in the same year premiered his operas "The Barber of Seville" and "Otello". Meyerbeer
Madeleine Boyd Dvořák, with the director Alessandro Talevi. She has worked primarily in Europe with the American opera director Thaddeus Strassberger and the South African opera director Alessandro Talevi. Notable productions include Set and Costume Design: "La Cenerentola", by Gioachino Rossini for Malmö Opera, Sweden; "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, at Theater Augsburg, November 2007; "La Gazzetta" by Gioachino Rossini, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, July 2007. Her designs for Elizabeth Maconchy's one-act operas "The Sofa" and "The Departure", for Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells, in November 2007, were received with acclaim. The Chandos label released a recording of both operas