Sandra Warfield performed with the Zurich Opera, where in 1961 she sang Katerina in the world premiere of Martinů's "The Greek Passion". They returned to the United States, and the Metropolitan Opera, in the 1960s. Her performances at the Met included Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera", Berta in "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini, Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Maddalena in "Rigoletto" by Verdi and Erda in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried", totaling 172 performances. She sang the role of Delilah in "Samson and Delilah", with Richard Tucker performing as Samson. In her farewell performance in January 1972, Warfield
Gioachino Rossini wife died in 1845, and on 16 August 1846, he married Olympe Pélissier, who had sat for Vernet for his picture of "Judith and Holofernes". Political disturbances compelled Rossini to leave Bologna in 1848. After living for a time in Florence, he settled in Paris in 1855, where he hosted many artistic and literary figures in his apartment at 2 Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. Among them was the forty years younger Belgian mattauphone virtuoso Edmond Michotte, whom Rossini considered his "quasi figlio". Rossini had been a well-known gourmand and an excellent amateur chef his entire life, but he indulged these