Évry, Essonne coming from as far away as Canada, but only 500 visitors watched the ceremony on a giant screen erected in the nearby park. The following political parties have a permanent base in Évry: The composer Gioachino Rossini had a country residence in Évry to be near his friend Edmond de Goncourt, who lived on the opposite bank of the Seine in Draveil. It was here that he wrote the greater part of his opera "The Barber of Seville". On 16 November 1943, Resistance fighter Missak Manouchian was arrested during a gun battle on the banks of the Seine, a few
Critical edition (opera) Critical edition (opera) A critical edition of an opera has been defined by American musicologist Philip Gossett as "an edition that bases itself wherever possible on the very finest and most accurate sources for an opera. That means that it must study the entire performance history of a work." Gossett continues: The emergence of critical editions of many works from the 19th-century Italian operatic repertory did not begin until the 1950s and resulted from the revival of interest from that time forward in the "bel canto" era—early 1800s to approximately 1850 and known as the "primo ottocento"—written by Gioachino Rossini,