Lauro Rossi was an Italian

Italy

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 composer, particularly of opera

Opera

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s. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi (1597–1653).

Rossi studied in Naples

Naples

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 and produced his first opera there. His greatest success was with the comic opera originally entitled La casa disabitata, which was performed for many years in its revised form under the title I falsi monetari.

However, Rossi suffered a fiasco in 1835, after which he left Naples for Mexico, then Cuba. There he set up his own opera company, and married its prima donna, Isabella Obermayer. He returned to Italy in 1843 and continued composing, but, thereafter, he was mainly known as an academic figure as director of the Conservatory, first at Milan (1850–1870) and then at Naples (1870–1878). He was commissioned by Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

, to compose a portion of Messa per Rossini

Messa per Rossini

The Messa per Rossini is a Requiem Mass composed to commemorate the first anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's death. It was a collaboration between 13 Italian composers, initiated by Giuseppe Verdi...

; specifically, Number V. Agnus Dei, for solo Alto.

Two of his late operas were also highly successful: La Contessa di Mons and Cleopatra.

Operas

• Le contesse villane (1829, revised as La villana contessa and also as Le principesse villane, 1830)
• Costanza e Oringaldo (1830, in collaboration with P. Raimondi)
• La sposa al lotto (1831)
• La casa in vendita, ovvero II casino di campagna (1831)
• La scommessa di matrimonio (1831)
• Baldovino, tiranno di Spoleto (1832)
• II maestro di scuola (1832)
• II disertore svizzero, ovvero La nostalgia (1832)
• Le fucine di Bergen (1833)
• La casa disabitata, ovvero Don Eustachio di campagna (1834, revised as I falsi monetari, 1844 and possibly also as Don Eutichio e Sinforosa)
• Amelia, ovvero Otto anni di costanza (1834)
• Leocadia (1835)
• Giovanna Shore (1836)
• II borgomastro di Schiedam (1844)
• Dottor Bobolo, ovvero La fiera (1845)
• Cellini a Parigi (1845)
• Azema di Granata, ovvero Gli Abencerragi ed i Zegrini (1846) (libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
  Jacopo Ferretti
  Jacopo Ferretti was an Italian writer, poet and opera librettist.He is most famous for having supplied the libretti for two operas by Rossiniand for five operas by Donizetti....
  
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• La figlia di Figaro (1846)
• Blanca Contarini (1847)
• Il domino nero (1849) revived in Italy,and available on CD
• Le Sabine (1852)
• L'alchimista (1853)
• La sirena (1855)
• Lo zingaro rivale (1867)
• Il maestro e la cantante (1867)
• Gli artisti alla fiera (1868)
• La contessa di Mons (1874)
• Cleopatra (1876)revived in 2008
• Biorn (1877)

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