The Barber of Seville

by

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Pines Of Rome

by

Ottorino Respighi

Rigoletto

by

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

Norma

by

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini

Lucia di Lammermoor

by

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti

Rhythm in the names of these Italian maestros

So beautifully acoustical

This harmonic they’ve creatively transposed

To their grand operatic musicals

by Stan Cooper…12/23/12 graphic by Don Hunt