Cimarosa

American  

[chee-muh-roh-zuh, chee-mah-raw-sah] / ˌtʃi məˈroʊ zə, ˌtʃi mɑˈrɔ sɑ /

noun

1. Domenico 1749–1801, Italian conductor and composer.

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Cimarosa British  

/ ˌtʃiːməˈrəʊzə /

noun

1. Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)

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Example Sentences

Bach, Domenico Cimarosa and Baldassare Galuppi — and to elevate him back to the heavens, bathing the audience in just shy of 90 minutes of aching beauty.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Then, an Italian Opera company restages Da Ponte’s “Oratorio,” with conductor Donato Renzetti and featuring the music of Cimarosa and Zingarelli, Haydn, Handel and Arne.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

The program features excerpts from Handel’s “Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” and Vivaldi’s “Orlando Furioso,” as well as selections by Haydn, Mozart, Stradella, Cimarosa and Porpora.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

He has ideas for other shows, e.g., digging out the popular light operas of Offenbach and Cimarosa.

From Time Magazine Archive

But meanwhile Cimarosa had been completely distanced by Mozart, who, himself a great inventor, and, so to say, anticipator, adopted moreover everything that was worth adopting in the methods of all his contemporaries and predecessors.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland