150th Birth Anniversary of Gioacchino Rossini (CL anniversario Rossiniano 1792-1942).

Description: Series of 4 stamps with 2 subjects. Impression 5.550.000
Date of issue: November 23, 1942. Valid up to December 31, 1943.

Rossini (1792- 1868), Italian composer famous for his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William Tell (1829).

Arms of Savoy with fasces in lower left corner.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:42:36