Poor Cimarosa. His early career as a spectacularly successful composer of opera buffa, perhaps one of the leading stars in a very popular field, sputtered when he encountered the Russian court. Catherine the Great, like her predecessors, had a thing
Poor Cimarosa. His early career as a spectacularly successful composer of opera buffa, perhaps one of the leading stars in a very popular field, sputtered when he encountered the Russian court. Catherine the Great, like her predecessors, had a thing