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Poniatowski, Rotondo (1816–1873)| Polish composer and tenor. He studied at the Liceo Musicale at Florence and under Ceccherini. He sang at the Teatro della Pergola there and produced his first opera there in 1839, singing the title part. After the 1848 Revolution he settled in Paris, but after the Franco-Prussian war he followed Napoleon III to England, in 1871. |
Works Opera Giovanni da Procida (1838), Don Desiderio (1840), Ruy Blas (after Hugo), Bonifazio de' Geremei (I Lambertazzi, 1843), Malek Adel (1846), Esmeralda (after Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, 1847), La sposa d'Abido (after Byron's Bride of Abydos), Pierre de Médicis (1860), Gelmina (1872), and others. |
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