Angelo Toselli

While in Rome, Toselli created a stage designs for The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini premiered under the title Almaviva, o sia L'inutile precauzione at the Teatro Argentina 20 February 1816.

Worked mostly at the Bolshoi Theatre, creating (alongside with artists Canoppi and Kondratiev) decorations for the ballet productions by Charles Didelot, including A Hunting Adventure (1818), Laura and Henry or The Troubadour (1819, new scenery for the last act), Ken-si and Tao or Beauty and the Beast (1819).

In 1817–1820, he created his most famous work, Panorama of Saint Petersburg as seen from Kunstkamera tower (watercolor, gouache, 0,51 х 6,56 m., collection of the Hermitage Museum).

[1] His another panoramic painting Scenography of Jerusalem and the surrounding holy places was demonstrated in an enfilade of Lobanov-Rostovsky Palace, new-built commercial residence on Saint Isaac's Square with an entrance fee of 5 roubles.

To achieve that Toselly used staffage and some other tricks : thus, the image of the Pool of Siloam was accompanied by sounds of water.