Chapter 14 OTELLO FURTHER REFORMS IN OPERA SERIA.

WHILE Rossini was still at Rome the San Carlo theatre was destroyed by fire, but Barbaja's fortune was not invested in one opera-house alone. He had two theatres in hand, and the principal one being burnt down, nothing was easier than for his composer to fulfil the conditions of his engagement by working for the minor establishment.

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