Rossini

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s/w John Ardoin, reviewing in The Dallas Morning News: Filmed in Italy during 1943, this is one of the few conscionable & entertaining composer biopics. Starring Nino Besozzi as Rossini, the film is on the whole accurate (something in itself unusual where films of composers are concerned), & few will forget the moving moment in which Rossini & Beethoven come face-to-face in Vienna in 1822. There are important operatic sequences from The Barber of Seville, Moses & Otello featuring such well-known prewar Italian singers as Gianna Pederzini, Mariano Stabile, Tancredi Pasero & Piero Pauli. Alan Blyth, reviewing in Gramophone: Rossini has something of the flavour of Marcel Carnés masterpiece, Les Enfants du Paradis, in that it portrays its era & particularly its country in human, highly coloured tints. Like its French counterpart, it uses a host of character actors to portray, winningly, Rossinis colleagues & contemporaries, & has crowd scenes that are vivid.. .