Did Wagner and Rossini ever meet?

Wagner met Rossini in Paris in 1860. You can read a little more by following this link:Rossini and His Abrupt Farewell to Opera I'm tempted to say that there were wonderful moments, but dreadful quarters of an hour! read more

Wagner met Rossini in Paris in 1860. You can read a little more by following this link: Rossini and His Abrupt Farewell to Opera I'm tempted to say that there were wonderful moments, but dreadful quarters of an hour! read more

No. They never met. As well as the odd compliment they made claims to suggest that they disliked each other's music. However their music suggests that they were quite aware of the sweeping changes to the genre of opera that the other was making. Wagner's choruses (eg. Fliegende Hollander) and Verdi's leitmotifs (eg. read more

His worsening health did not help. Perhaps in response to the death of his mother, in 1827, Rossini suffered debilitating depressions well into the 1850s. Several writers have suggested that he had what we would now call bipolar disorder, and his psychological troubles were compounded by physical ones. read more