Isabella Colbran
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Isabella Angela Colbran was a Spanish opera soprano and composer. She was known as the muse and first wife of composer Gioachino Rossini.
Isabella Colbran painted by Heinrich Schmidt
Colbran-Rossini Memorial
Isabella Colbran; portrait by Johann Baptist Reiter (c. 1835)
Gioachino Rossini
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Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39 operas, he also wrote many pieces of chamber
Isabella Colbran
…Isabella Angela Colbran (2 February 1785 – 7 October 1845) was a Spanish opera soprano and composer. She was known as the muse and first wife of composer Gioachino Rossini. Colbran was born in Madrid, Spain, to Giovanni Colbran, King of Spain Carlos III's head court musician and violinist, and Teresa Ortola. She started…
Rossini as a young man, c. 1810–1815
Giuseppe Rossini (1758–1839)
Anna Rossini (1771–1827)
The storm scene from Il barbiere in an 1830 lithograph by Alexandre Fragonard