A cartoon of opera composer Gioachino Rossini in a satirical magazine: His detractors regarded his work as simply too busy, too loud and too noisy.
The coastal Italian resort of Pesaro is one of those places with views of two seas. There’s the invitingly warm water of the Adriatic, which is separated from the land by a sea of beach umbrellas. It’s actually a good place to be in during a 2025 heatwave, with the water keeping the temperature down and the sea breezes providing frequent cooling.
The city is also home to a leading opera festival. Its most famous son is the composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), and the house in which he was born has been turned into a small, evocative, tightly-focused museum. Rossini is the man whose William Tell Overture provided the theme tune for The Lone Ranger, and he w
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