The works of Italian opera composer G.Rossini gave a new birth on Italian opera seria and comic opera.He put the opera seria into comic opera and used the comic opera to compose opera seria.It was Rossini,Berrien and Donizetti who pushed the Italian opera to a peak.The music in this period was called the era of bel canto,which had great influence on the forming of bel canto style of Verdi,Puccini,and Leoncavallo.So far it also made the Italian opera wear the crown of vocal music art.The contributions they made to the development of vocal music is unapproachable.The hostess Rossina's aria “Una voce poco fa”in His masterpiece of “Ii Barbiere di Siviglia”manifested the composing features of Rossini,which presented the various kinds of states of the time,vividly and faithfully. |