La donna del lago to Naples in early June with no projects in the offing, except to become involved with overseeing a new production of his "La gazza ladra" there. Also, a commission from Milan's La Scala for an opera, which would become "Bianca e Falliero", had been offered and was planned for December of that year. Suddenly, the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini withdrew from a commitment to write two operas for the Naples house that season, thus leaving a huge gap. Rossini was quickly asked to write an opera for a September premiere; rather than use an existing libretto, the house insisted upon
Vilnius City Opera Vilnius City Opera Vilnius City Opera - a team of independent artists, which started in 2006, when director Dalia Ibelhauptaitė , conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius and scene artist Juozas Statkevičius joined their forces together in staging opera by Giacomo Puccini "La bohème". The artists called themselves "bohemiečiai" ("the Bohemians") since then. After 8 years of activity the troupe acquired a status of professional theatre and became a "Vilnius City Opera". "Vilnius City Opera" has no building and staging operas in Vilnius Congress Concert Hall. One of the main aims of VCO is to make opera genre more widely available, to liberate