Happy Leap Day!
Was Gioachino Rossini really born on February 29? It has been suggested to me by a knowledgeable source that he was not; yet I cannot find any evidence of this by way of a cursory internet search. So was Rossini a charlatan (i.e. a canny showman) – which I wouldn’t put past him – or is this classical music’s answer to the Birther movement?
As I continue to ponder the imponderables, here’s “Rabbit of Seville.”

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