Gaetano Rossi was an Italian

Italy

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 writer who wrote opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 libretti

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 for several composers including Mayr

Simon Mayr

Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...

, Rossini, Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

, Mercadante

Saverio Mercadante

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...

, Pacini

Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...

, and Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

.

Biography

Born in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, Rossi was writing religious verse by the time that he was 13 years old. He began writing libretti in 1797, mostly farsa

Farsa

Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta....

s in the beginning. In addition to his writing, he also worked for a time as the stage manager

Stage management

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 for the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

After a prolific writing career, he died in the city of his birth.

Works

Year staged	Name of work	Type of work	Composer(s)
1797	Carolina e Mexicow	tragedia per musica	Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera.-Early career:Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied at the Santa Maria di Loreto Conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza....
1798	Che originali	farsa Farsa Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta....  per musica	Simon Mayr Simon Mayr Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :... Francesco Schira (1835)
1798	Amore e paura	farsa per musica	Vittorio Trento
1799	Le quattro mogli	dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole...  per musica	Gaetano Marinelli
1799	Adelaide di Guesclino	dramma di sentimento	Simon Mayr Francesco Gnecco (1800)
1799	Labino e Carlotta	farsa per musica	Simon Mayr
1799	Il sarto di Milano	farsa giocosa per musica	Vincenzo Fiocchi
1799	L’accademia in musica	farsa giocosa per musica	Simon Mayr
1799	Antigona	dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...	Francesco Basili Francesco Basili Francesco Basili was an Italian composer and conductor. He was born in Loreto and died in Rome.-References:...
1799	Il ratto delle Sabine	dramma per musica	Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
1799	La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro	dramma comico per musica	Marcos Portugal Marcos Portugal Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal was a Portuguese classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas in Italian....
1800	Gli sciti	dramma per musica	Simon Mayr
1800	La locandiera	farsa giocosa per musica	Simon Mayr Giuseppe Farinelli Giuseppe Farinelli Giuseppe Farinelli was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century who excelled in writing opera buffas...  (1803) as Chi la durá la vince
1800	I due cognomi	farsa giocosa per musica	Vittorio Trento
1801	Gli sposi infatuati	farsa giocosa per musica	Sebastiano Nasolini
1801	Ginevra di Scozia	dramma eroico per musica	Simon Mayr Giuseppe Mosca (1802) Marcos António Portugal (1805) Vincenzo Pucitta Vincenzo Pucitta Vincenzo Pucitta was a nineteenth-century Italian composer. Born in Civitavecchia, he wrote more than 20 operas during his career. One of his works, La Vestale, after its premiere in London , was also sung in Lisbon , Milan and Rio de Janeiro...  (1812)
1801	I virtuosi	farsa giocosa	Simon Mayr
1801	Argene	dramma eroica	Simon Mayr Stefano Pavesi Stefano Pavesi Stefano Pavesi was an Italian composer.Born in Casaletto Vaprio, he is best known for his many operas.. He died at Crema, Lombardy in 1850.-References:...  (1807) as Aristodemo
1801	Adelaide e Tebaldo	dramma sentimentale	Raffaele Orgitano
1802	La Giulietta	dramma semi-serio Opera semiseria Opera semiseria is an Italian genre of opera, popular in the early and middle 19th century.Related to the opera buffa, opera semiseria contains elements of comedy but also of pathos, sometimes with a pastoral setting. It can usually be distinguished from tragic operas or melodramas by the presence...	Giuseppe Farinelli
1802	Pamela	farsa in musica	Giuseppe Farinelli
1803	Il ventaglio	farsa comica in musica	Giuseppe Farinelli
1803	I riti d'Efeso I riti d'Efeso I riti d'Efeso is a dramma eroico per musica or opera in 2 acts and 26 scenes by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The work premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 26 December 1803 in a double bill with Filippo Beretti's Atamaro e Obeide.-Roles:...	dramma eroica	Giuseppe Farinelli Sebastiano Nasolini (1812)
1804	Arsace e Semira	dramma eroico in musica	Francesco Gnecco
1804	Il sordo	farsa comica in musica	I. Girace Giuseppe Farinelli (1805) as Il finto sordo
1804	Pamela nubile	farsa in musica	Pietro Generali Pietro Generali Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
1804	La calzolaia	farsa comica in musica	Pietro Generali
1804	Elisa	dramma sentimentale	Simon Mayr
1805	Eraldo ed Emma	dramma eroico per musica	Simon Mayr
1805	Trionfo d’Emilia	dramma eroico per musica	Stefano Pavesi A. Rego (1807) Francesco Sampieri (1818) as Il trionfo d’Emilia
1805	Don Chisciotto de la Mancia	dramma giocoso	Pietro Generali
1805	L’Amor coniugale	dramma di sentimento	Simon Mayr
1805	La roccia di Frauenstein	melodramma Melodramma Melodramma is an Italian term for opera, used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early 19th century Italian libretto...  eroi-comico	Simon Mayr
1805	Gli americani	melodramma eroico	Simon Mayr Nicola Antonio Manfroce Nicola Antonio Manfroce Nicola Antonio Manfroce was an Italian composer.-References:...  (1810) as Alzira Marcos António Portugal (1816) as Il trionfo di Gusmano
1806	Attila	dramma serio per musica	Giuseppe Farinelli
1807	I cherusci	melodramma eroico	Stefano Pavesi Simon Mayr (1808)
1807	Calliroe Calliroe (Farinelli) Calliroe is a melodramma eroico or opera in 2 acts and 23 scenes by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The work premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 3 January 1808 in a double bill with the house premiere of Urbano Garzia's ballet Il...	melodramma eroico	Giuseppe Farinelli
1807	Amor soldato	dramma giocoso per musica	Luigi Antonio Calegari Luigi Antonio Calegari Luigi Antonio Calegari was an Italian opera composer. He was nephew of Antonio Calegari and possibly related to other composers in the Padua Calegari family; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari , and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata .-Operas:*Il matrimonio scoperto ossia Le...
1808	La festa della rosa	melodramma comico	Stefano Pavesi Carlo Coccia Carlo Coccia Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...  (1821) as La festa da rosa
1809	Guerre in pace	farsa per musica	N. Giuliani
1809	Il trionfo delle belle	dramma eroi-comico	Stefano Pavesi
1809	Zilia	farsa in musica	C. Mellara
1809	I gauri	melodramma eroica	C. Mellara
1809	Ippolita, regina delle amazzoni	melodramma eroica	Stefano Pavesi
1810	Adelina Adelina (opera) Adelina is an opera farsa in one act, by the Italian composer Pietro Generali with words by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice on either 15 or 16 September 1810...	farsa giocosa per musica	Pietro Generali
1810	La cambiale di matrimonio La cambiale di matrimonio La cambiale di matrimonio is a one-act operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio...	farsa comica	Gioachino Rossini
1810	Cecchina suonatrice di Ghironda	melodramma comico	Pietro Generali
1811	L’amor figliale	melodramma di sentimento	Simon Mayr
1811	I solitarj	melodramma di sentimento	Carlo Coccia
1811	Idomeneo	melodramma eroico	Giuseppe Farinelli
1811	Tre mariti	farsa comica in musica	Giuseppe Mosca G. Carulli (1825) G. L. Bazzoni (1836)
1812	Il qui pro quo	Melodramma comico	Ferdinando Orlandi Ferdinando Orlandi Ferdinando Orlandi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. Born in Parma, he was a pupil of organist Gaspare Rugarli and composer Ferdinando Paer. He also studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples with Nicola Sala and Giacomo Tritto. In 1800 he took a position at...
1812	Il finto Stanislao, re di Polonia	Melodramma comico	Giuseppe Mosca
1812	Il marito imbarazzo	farsa	Mellara
1812	Teodoro	melodramma eroico	Stefano Pavesi
1813	Tancredi Tancredi Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancrède...	melodramma eroico	Gioachino Rossini
1813	I baccanti	dramma per musica	Ferdinando Paer Ferdinando Paer -Biography:Paer was born at Parma. His father was a trumpeter with the Ducal Bodyguards and also performed at church and court events. His name, Ferdinando, was after Duke Ferdinand of Parma and was given to him by Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Duke Ferdinand's wife... Pietro Generali (1816) as I baccanti di Roma
1814	Avviso al pubblico	melodramma comico	Giuseppe Mosca
1814	Il crescendo	?	Carlo Coccia
1814	Trajano in Dacia	dramma eroico per musica	Felice Blangini Felice Blangini Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini, a musical composer, was born in Turin in 1781, and died in Paris, Dec. 1841. At 12 he was organist of the cathedral in that city, and at 14 led a mass with a full orchestra. He went to Paris in 1799, and was for several years a successful composer of opera there...
1814	Evellina	melodramma eroico	Carlo Coccia
1815	La fedeltà conjugale	dramma semiserio	Antonio Brunetti
1815	La figlia dell’aria	melodramma eroi-comico	F. Paini Manuel García Manuel García (tenor) Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García was a Spanish opera singer, composer, impresario, and singing teacher.-Biography:...  (1826)
1815	Celanira	melodramma eroico	Stefano Pavesi
1815	Clotilde	melodramma semi-serio	Carlo Coccia
1815	Zoraide	melodramma eroico	Giuseppe Farinelli
1816	Malvina	melodramma di sentimento	Nicola Vaccai Nicola Vaccai Nicola Vaccai was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher.-Life and career as a composer:...
1816	Etelinda	melodramma semiserio	Carlo Coccia Peter Winter Peter Winter Peter Winter was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera....  (1818) Pellegrini (1831)
1817	Romilda e Costanza	melodramma semiserio	Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
1817	Lanassa	melodramma eroico	Simon Mayr
1817	Adelaide e Comingio	melodramma semi-serio	Giovanni Pacini Giovanni Pacini Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
1819	La sposa fedele	melodramma semiserio	Giovanni Pacini
1819	Emma di Resburgo	melodramma eroico	Giacomo Meyerbeer F. Celli (1821) Carolina Uccelli Carolina Uccelli -Biography:Carolina Uccelli was born in Florence and made her debut as a composer with the performance of the sacred opera Saul at the Teatro della Pergola on 21 June 1830. Uccelli wrote both libretto and music for the opera. A two-act melodrama Anna di Resburo with libretto by Gaetano Rossi was...  (1835) as Anna di Resburgo
1820	Il conte di Lenosse	melodramma eroico	Giuseppe Nicolini Giuseppe Nicolini Giuseppe Nicolini was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to religious music...
1821	L’eroe di Lancastro	melodramma serio	Giuseppe Nicolini Lord Burghersh John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC , styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.-Background:...  (1829)
1821	Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia	dramma serio per musica	Saverio Mercadante Saverio Mercadante Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
1821	Valmiro e Zaida	dramma per musica	Francesco Sampieri
1822	Tebaldo e Isolina	melodramma eroico	Francesco Morlacchi Francesco Morlacchi Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
1823	Semiramide Semiramide Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon...	melodramma tragico	Gioachino Rossini
1824	Ilda d’Avenel	melodramma eroico	Francesco Morlacchi Giuseppe Nicolini (1828)
1824	Il crociato in Egitto Il crociato in Egitto Il crociato in Egitto is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at La Fenice theatre, Venice on 7 March, 1824. The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti; the opera was probably the last ever written...	melodramma eroico	Giacomo Meyerbeer
1826	Il paria	melodramma tragico	Michele Carafa Michele Carafa Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
1826	Mitridate	melodramma eroico	Giovanni Tadolini Giovanni Tadolini Giovanni Tadolini was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably best known for completing six sections of Rossini's 1833 version of the Stabat mater after the latter fell sick...
1827	Giovanna d’Arco	melodramma romantico	Nicola Vaccai
1828	I cavalieri di Valenza	melodramma tragico	Giovanni Pacini A. Gandini (1830) as Isabella di Lara Francesco Schira (1836) as Os cavalleiros de Valenca U. Fontana (1836) as Isabella di Lara
1828	L’orfano della selva	melodramma comico	Carlo Coccia N. Paoletti (1839)
1830	Maria di Brabante	melodramma eroico	Guillon A. Gandini (1833)
1830	Amore e mistero	melodramma comico	Feliciano Strepponi
1830	La donna bianca di Avenello	melodramma comico	Stefano Pavesi Gallieri (1854)
1830	Malek-Adel	melodramma eroico	Giuseppe Nicolini Benedetto Bergonzi (1835)
1831	Fenella	melodramma	Stefano Pavesi
1831	Beniowski	melodramma	Pietro Generali
1831	Chiara di Rosembergh	melodramma	Luigi Ricci
1831	Enrico di Monfort	melodramma	Carlo Coccia
1832	Ivanhoe	melodramma	Giovanni Pacini
1833	Gli Elvezi	melodramma	Giovanni Pacini
1833	Irene	tragedia lirica	Giovanni Pacini?
1834	Hernani (Ernani)	melodramma (dramma serio)	Vincenzo Gabussi
1835	Carlo di Borgogna Carlo di Borgogna Carlo di Borgogna is an Italian opera in three parts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on February 21, 1835.- Roles:- Synopsis :Part One...	melodrammo romantico	Giovanni Pacini
1835	La fidanzata delle isole	melodrammo romantico	P. Candio
1835	Chiara di Montalbano in Francia	melodramma semiserio	Luigi Ricci
1837	Il giuramento	melodramma	Saverio Mercadante
1837	Iginia d’Asti	melodramma	S. Levy
1837	Il rapimento	melodramma comico	Placido Mandanici Placido Mandanici Placido Mandanici was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo , and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi. In 1829 his first opera , L'isola disabitata, premiered in Naples...
1838	Le nozze di Figaro	melodramma comico	Luigi Ricci
1838	Le due illustri rivali	melodramma	Saverio Mercadante
1838	La prigione d’ Edimburgo	melodramma semiserio	Federico Ricci Federico Ricci Federico Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....
1838	Alisia di Rieux	melodramma	Giuseppe Lillo Giuseppe Lillo Giuseppe Lillo was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas which followed in the same vein of Gioachino Rossini. He also produced works for solo piano, a small amount of sacred music, and some chamber music....
1839	Romilda	melodramma	Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand Hiller was a German composer, conductor, writer and music-director.-Biography:Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus was a merchant in English textiles – a business eventually continued by Ferdinand’s brother Joseph... L. Gavazzeni (1845) C. Boniforti (1847) as Velleda B. Prati (1854) as Amilda
1839	Rossane	melodramma	Franz Schoberlechner
1839	Il bravo	melodramma	Saverio Mercadante
1840	Giovanna II regina di Napoli	melodramma	Carlo Coccia
1840	Ginevra degli Almieri	melodramma	Samuele Levi Samuele Levi Samuele Levi was an Italian composer born in Venice. He is best known for his four operas: Iginia d'Asti , Ginerva degli Almieri , Giuditta , and La biscagliata . He died in Florence.-References:...
1841	Clemenza di Valois	melodramma	Vincenzo Gabussi
1841	Il proscritto	melodramma tragico	Otto Nicolai
1841	Maria Padilla Maria Padilla Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Gaetano Rossi and the composer wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's play. It premiered on December 26, 1841 at La Scala, Milan...	melodramma (with Gaetano Donizetti Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment... )	Gaetano Donizetti
1842	Linda di Chamounix Linda di Chamounix Linda di Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna, at the Kärntnertortheater, on May 19, 1842.-Performance history:...	melodramma	Gaetano Donizetti
1846	Romea di Monfort	melodramma	Carlo Pedrotti Carlo Pedrotti Carlo Pedrotti was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci.-Early life:Pedrotti was born in Verona, where he studied music...
1851	Il Lazzarone	melodramma comico	Francesco Berger G. Rota Alberto Randegger Alberto Randegger Alberto Randegger was an Italian-born composer, conductor and singing teacher, best known for promoting opera and new works of British music in England during the Victorian era and for his widely-used textbook on singing technique.-Life and career:Randegger was born in Trieste, Italy, the son of... A. Zelman
1852	Il perruchiere della reggenza	melodramma comico	Carlo Pedrotti
1852	Il marito e l’amante	dramma comico	Federico Ricci
1853	Il paniere d’amore	melodramma comico	Federico Ricci
1854	Genoveffa del Brabante	melodramma	Carlo Pedrotti
1856	I Romani in Pompejano	melodramma	G. Rota
1859	Il diavolo a quattro	melodramma comico	Luigi Ricci
1880	Tancreda	dramma lirico	Theodor Döhler Theodor Döhler Theodor Döhler was a German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period. He studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechter. -Childhood and education:...