Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern LifeBest remembered for such light hearted works as Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gioachino Rossini produced a sequence of large scale serious French operas after his move to Paris in 1824 which overwhelmed audiences with their musical power, and responded to the French Restoration. Rather than presenting a traditional account of Rossini's life and works, Benjamin Walton traces instead the shifting patterns of Rossinian criticism from before the composer's