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| 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 | 1 act | Gaetano Rossi Gaetano Rossi Gaetano Rossi was an Italian writer who wrote opera libretti for several composers including Mayr, Rossini, Donizetti, Mercadante, Pacini, and Meyerbeer.-Biography:... , after Camillo Federici Camillo Federici Camillo Federici was an Italian dramatist and actor.He was born at Garessio, a small town in Piedmont. His real name was Giovanni Battista Viassolo; he took his pen-name from the title of one of his first pieces, Camillo e Federico. He was educated at Turin, and showed an early fondness for... and Giuseppe Checcherini |
3 November 1810 | Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Teatro San Moisè Teatro San Moisè The Teatro San Moisè was an opera house in Venice, active from 1640 to 1818. It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Moisè at the entrance to the Grand Canal.... |
| L'equivoco stravagante L'equivoco stravagante L'equivoco stravagante is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri. It was Rossini's first attempt at writing a full two-act opera.-Performance history:... |
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... |
2 acts | Gaetano Gasbarri | 26 October 1811 | Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... , Teatro del Corso |
| L'inganno felice L'inganno felice L'inganno felice is an opera in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. Foppa reworked the libretto which Giuseppe Palomba had written for an opera of the same name by Paisiello .... |
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.... |
1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 8 January 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare Ciro in Babilonia Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare in an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Francesco Aventi. It was first performed at the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara during Lent, 1812. The exact date of the premiere is unknown but is believed to be March 14... |
dramma con cori | 2 acts | Francesco Aventi | 14 March 1812 | Ferrara Ferrara Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north... , Teatro comunale di Ferrara |
| La scala di seta La scala di seta La scala di seta is an operatic farsa comica in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. It was first performed in Venice, Italy at the Teatro San Moisè on May 9, 1812... |
farsa comica | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after F A E de Planard | 9 May 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Demetrio e Polibio Demetrio e Polibio Demetrio e Polibio is a two-act operatic dramma serio by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Vincenzina Viganò-Mombelli. The opera was orchestrated for strings only.... |
dramma serio | 2 acts | Vincenzina Vigano-Mombelli | 18 May 1812 | Rome, Teatro Valle Teatro Valle The Teatro Valle is a theatre and former opera house in Rome, Italy.Commissioned by the Capranica family, the architect Tommaso Morelli designed the theatre which was built in 1726. It was inaugurated with the staging of the tragedy Matilde by Simon Falconio Pratoli... |
| La pietra del paragone La pietra del paragone La pietra del paragone is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Romanelli.-Performance history:... |
melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Luigi Romanelli | 26 September 1812 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Teatro alla Scala La Scala La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala... |
| L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia L'occasione fa il ladro L’occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia is an opera in one act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Prividali, based on Le prétendu sans le savoir, ou L’occasion fait le larron, a play by Eugène Scribe.-Performance history:L’occasione fa il... |
burletta per musica Burletta A burletta , also sometimes burla or burlettina, is a musical term generally denoting a brief comic Italian opera... |
1 act | Luigi Privadali, after Eugène Scribe Eugène Scribe Augustin Eugène Scribe , was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" . This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years.-Biography:... |
24 November 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo Il signor Bruschino Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo is a one act operatic farce by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, based upon the play Le fils par hasard, ou ruse et folie by Alissan de Chazet and E.T.M. Ourry... |
farsa giocoso | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa after Alissan de Chazet and E-T Maurice Ourry | 27 January 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| 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 | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi and Luigi Lechi, after Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state... |
6 February 1813 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice La Fenice Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres... |
| L'italiana in Algeri L'italiana in Algeri L'italiana in Algeri is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca... |
dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli, originally for Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca Luigi Mosca was Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of them originally for theatres in Naples, but which played throughout Italy in their day.-Biography:... (1808) |
22 May 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto Teatro San Benedetto The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and was the theatre of choice for the presentation of opera seria until... |
| Aureliano in Palmira Aureliano in Palmira Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." The libretto has generally been attributed to Giuseppe Felice Romani, but sometimes to the otherwise... |
dramma serio | 2 acts | G. F. R. (attributed to Felice Romani Felice Romani Felice Romani was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.-Biography:Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa,... or Gian Francesco Romanelli), after Gaetano Sertor |
26 December 1813 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Il turco in Italia Il turco in Italia Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani... |
dramma buffo | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Caterino Mazzolà | 14 August 1814 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Sigismondo Sigismondo Sigismondo is an operatic 'dramma' in two act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa.The opera was not a success and Rossini later re-used some of its music in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, The Barber of Seville, and Adina.-Performance history:Sigismondo was first... |
dramma | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 26 December 1814 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
| Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici... |
dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, after Carlo Federici | 4 October 1815 | Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Teatro di San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance... |
| Torvaldo e Dorliska Torvaldo e Dorliska Torvaldo e Dorliska is an operatic dramma semiserio in two act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini... |
dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Cesare Sterbini Cesare Sterbini Cesare Sterbini was an Italian writer.Sterbini was born at Rome. He is known for two libretti for operas by Gioacchino Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska and The Barber of Seville .... , after J-B de Coudry's Vie et amours du chevalier de Faubles (1790) and other libretti based on this work |
26 December 1815 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione The Barber of Seville The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music... |
commedia | 2 acts | Cesare Sterbini, after Beaumarchais Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary .... |
20 February 1816 | Rome, Teatro Argentina Teatro Argentina The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. It is one of the oldest theatres in Rome, and was inaugurated on January 31, 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro.... |
| La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso La Gazzetta La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763.... |
dramma (opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc... ) |
2 acts | Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty... |
26 September 1816 | Naples, Teatro de' Fiorentini |
| Otello, ossia Il Moro di Venezia Otello (Rossini) Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.... |
dramma | 3 acts | Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... |
4 December 1816 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo Teatro del Fondo The Teatro del Fondo is a theatre in Naples, now known as the Teatro Mercadante. Together with the Teatro San Carlo, it was originally one of the two royal opera houses of the 18th and 19th-century city.... |
| La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo La Cenerentola La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella... |
dramma giocoso | 2 acts | 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.... , after C Perrault's Cendrillon |
25 January 1817 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
| La gazza ladra La gazza ladra La gazza ladra is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giovanni Gherardini after La pie voleuse by JMT Badouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.... |
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... |
2 acts | Giovanni Gherardini, after J M T Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez | 31 May 1817 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Armida Armida (Rossini) Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.-Performance history:... |
dramma | 3 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, after Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem... 's Gerusalemme liberata Jerusalem Delivered Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem... |
11 November 1817 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia Adelaide di Borgogna Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt... |
dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt | 27 December 1817 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
| Mosè in Egitto Mosè in Egitto Mosè in Egitto is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L'Osiride, of 1760.... |
azione tragico-sacra | 3 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola Andrea Leone Tottola Andrea Leone Tottola was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.It is not known when or where he was born... , after Francesco Ringhieri |
5 March 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Adina, ossia Il califfo di Bagdad Adina (opera) Adina is an operatic farsa in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera develops the popular theme of the "abduction from the seraglio".... |
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.... |
1 act | Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini | 22 June 1826 | Lisbon Lisbon Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban... , Teatro Reale di San Carlo |
| Ricciardo e Zoraide Ricciardo e Zoraide Ricciardo e Zoraide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Berio de Salsa... |
dramma | 2 acts | Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after Niccolò Forteguerri | 3 December 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Ermione Ermione Ermione is a tragic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine.- Performance history :... |
azione tragica | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Racine | 27 March 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Eduardo e Cristina Eduardo e Cristina Eduardo e Cristina is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto originally written by Giovanni Schmidt for Odoardo e Cristina , an opera by Stefano Pavesi, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.This pastiche work was... |
dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, revised by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini and Andrea Leone Tottola | 24 April 1819 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
| La donna del lago La donna del lago La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on The Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Scott's romantic works... |
melodramma | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Walter Scott Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.... 's The Lady of the Lake |
24 October 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre Bianca e Falliero Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.-Performance history:The opera premiered on December 26,... |
melodramma | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault Antoine-Vincent Arnault was a French dramatist.Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, Marius à Minturne , immediately established his reputation. A year later he followed with a second republican tragedy, Lucrèce. Arnault left France during the Reign of Terror, but on his return, he was... |
26 December 1819 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Maometto II Maometto II Maometto II is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle, set in the 1470s during the time of the war between the Turks and Venetians. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo... |
dramma | 2 acts | Cesare della Valle | 3 December 1820 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro Matilde di Shabran Matilde di Shabran , ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro , is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde... |
melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman | 24 February 1821 | Rome, Teatro Apollo |
| Zelmira Zelmira Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas... |
dramma | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy | 16 February 1822 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| 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 | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire | 3 February 1823 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
| Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro Il viaggio a Reims Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts, by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou L'Italie by Mme de Staël.Rossini's last opera in the Italian language Il viaggio a... |
dramma giocoso | 1 act | Luigi Balocchi, after Madame de Staël | 19 June 1825 | Paris, Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique |
| Le siège de Corinthe Le siège de Corinthe Le siège de Corinthe is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, based on Maometto II by Cesare della Valle... , a revision of Maometto secondo |
tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet Alexandre Soumet Alexandre Soumet was a French poet.-Biography:Alexandre Soumet was born at Castelnaudary, département of Aude. His love of poetry began at a early age. He was an admirer of Klopstock and Schiller, then little known in France... , after the libretto for Maometto II |
9 October 1826 | Paris Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... , Salle Le Peletier |
| Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la mer rouge, a revision of Mosè in Egitto | opéra 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... |
4 acts | Luigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after the libretto for Mosè in Egitto | 26 March 1827 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
| Le comte Ory Le comte Ory Le comte Ory is an opéra written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828. Some of the music originates from his opera Il viaggio a Reims written three years earlier for the coronation of Charles X... |
opéra (opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections... ) |
2 acts | Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson Auguste-Simon-Jean-Chrysostome Poirson, known as Delestre-Poirson was a French playwright and theatre director.... |
20 August 1828 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
| Guillaume Tell William Tell (opera) Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell. Based on the legend of William Tell, this opera was Rossini's last, even though the composer lived for nearly forty more years... |
opéra | 4 acts | Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis, after Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... |
3 August 1829 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
Works derived from Rossini operas with the composer's permission
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| Ivanhoé Ivanhoé Ivanhoé is an 1826 pastiche opera in three acts with music by Gioachino Rossini to a French-language libretto by Émile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly, after Walter Scott's novel of the same name... (consisting entirely of music taken from earlier Rossini operas by Antonio Pacini) |
pastiche Pasticcio In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.-Etymology:The term is first attested in the... |
3 acts | Emile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly, after Walter Scott Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.... 's Ivanhoe Ivanhoe Ivanhoe is a historical fiction novel by Sir Walter Scott in 1819, and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while... |
15 September 1826 | Paris, Odéon Odéon The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe is one of France's six national theatres.It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden... |
| Robert Bruce Robert Bruce (opera) Robert Bruce is an 1846 pastiche opera in three acts, with music by Gioachino Rossini and Louis Niedermeyer to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, after Walter Scott's History of Scotland... (adapted by Louis Niedermeyer Louis Niedermeyer Abraham Louis Niedermeyer was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Ecole Choron, duly renamed École Niedermeyer, a school for the study and practice of church music, where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and... from La donna del lago La donna del lago La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on The Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Scott's romantic works... , Zelmira Zelmira Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas... , Bianca e Falliero Bianca e Falliero Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.-Performance history:The opera premiered on December 26,... , Torvaldo e Dorliska Torvaldo e Dorliska Torvaldo e Dorliska is an operatic dramma semiserio in two act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini... and Armida Armida (Rossini) Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.-Performance history:... .) |
pastiche Pasticcio In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.-Etymology:The term is first attested in the... |
3 acts | Jean-Nicolas van Nieuwenhuysen and Alphonse Royer Alphonse Royer Alphonse Royer, was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem... |
30 December 1846 | Paris Opéra Paris Opera The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique... , Salle Le Peletier |