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| | Gioachino Rossini: Biography - Classic Cat |
 | | Rossini's father was sent to prison, and his wife took him to Bologna, earning her living as lead singer at various theatres of the Romagna region, where she was ultimately joined by her husband. |
 | | In Il barbiere di Siviglia, produced in the beginning of the next year in Rome, the libretto, a version of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville by Sterbini, was the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century. |
 | | In 1824 he became musical director of the Théatre Italien in Paris at a salary of £800 per annum, and when the agreement came to an end he was rewarded with the offices of chief composer to the king and inspector-general of singing in France, to which was attached the same income. |
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