Operas by Gioachino Rossini
La cambiale di matrimonio (1810) L'equivoco stravagante (1811) L'inganno felice (1812) Ciro in Babilonia (1812) La scala di seta (1812) Demetrio e Polibio (1812) La pietra del paragone (1812) L'occasione fa il ladro (1812) Il signor Bruschino (1813) Tancredi (1813) L'italiana in Algeri (1813) Aureliano in Palmira (1813) Il turco in Italia (1814) Sigismondo (1814) Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815) Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) The Barber of Seville (1816) La gazzetta (1816) Otello (1816) La Cenerentola ( 1817) La gazza ladra (1817) Armida (1817) Adelaide di Borgogna (1817) Mosè in Egitto (1818) Ricciardo e Zoraide (1818) Adina (1818) Ermione (1819) Eduardo e Cristina (1819) La donna del lago (1819) Bianca e Falliero (1819) Maometto II (1820) Matilde di Shabran (1821) Zelmira (1822) Semiramide (1823) Il viaggio a Reims (1825) Le siège de Corinthe (1826) Moïse et Pharaon ( 1827) Le comte Ory (1828) Guillaume Tell ( 1829) Gioachino Rossini. ... Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Gioacchino Rossini ... La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) is a comic opera in one act by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Il Signor Bruschino (or Il figlio per azzardo) is a one act operatic farce (farsa giocosa per musica) by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, based upon the play Le fils par hasard, ou ruse et folie by Alissan de Chazet and E.T.M. Ourry. ... Tancredi is an opera in two acts by composer Gioacchino Rossini and librettist Luigi Lechi, based on Voltaires play Tancrède (1759). ... Litaliana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) 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. ... A seductive Turk visits Italy to discover European customs. ... Elisabetta, regina dInghilterra, (Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, from a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici. ... For the Beaumarchais play, see The Barber of Seville (play). ... La Gazzetta is a comic opera by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, satirising the influence of newspapers on peoples lives. ... Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ... La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Adelaide di Borgogna or Ottone, re dItalia is an opera attributed to Gioacchino Rossini. ... Mosè Egitto is a three part opera on the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites, led by Moses. ... Ermione is a tragic opera (azione tragica) in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine. ... La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera by Gioacchino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Totola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott. ... Matilde di Shabran (1821), ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro (Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty with a Heart of Iron), 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 (1790... Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (in turn based on the play by Du Belloy), the last of the composers Neapolitan operas. ... Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Il viaggio a Reims, ossia Lalbergo del giglio doro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Lily) is an operatic dramma giocoso in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an French libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou LItalie by Mme... Le Siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth) is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, based on Maometto II by Cesare della Valle. ... Design for the décor of Act I for Moïse et Pharaon at the Théâtre de lAcadémie Royale de Musique. ... Le comte Ory is a comic opera written by Gioacchino Rossini in 1828. ... Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opera in four acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell. ...
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La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) 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. Marillion is a British Rock group. ... Marillions double live album, named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Cluthing at Straws tour 1987-1988, Rossinis La gazza ladra, which translates as The Thieving Magpie. ... Opera semiseria (semi-serious opera) is an Italian genre of opera, popular in the early 19th century. ... Gioachino Rossini. ...

The opera is best known for its overture, which is notable for its use of snare drums. Overture (French ouverture, meaning opening) in music is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral or, occasionally, instrumental composition. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ...

Rossini was famous for his writing speed, and La gazza ladra was no exception. It was reported that the producer had to lock Rossini in a room the day before the first performance in order to write the overture. Rossini then threw each sheet out of the window to his copyists, who wrote out the full orchestral parts. A copyist is a person who makes written copies. ...

Performance history

It was first performed on 31 May 1817 at La Scala, Milan. The opera was revised by Rossini for subsequent productions in Pesaro in 1818, and for the Teatro del Fondo (Naples) in 1819 and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples) in 1820. He again worked on the music in Paris in 1866. is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, by night. ... For other uses, see Milan (disambiguation). ... Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. ... Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy. ... Year 1819 (MDCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) in the [[Grhttp://en. ... Façade of Teatro San Carlo. ... Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

Riccardo Zandonai made his own version of the opera for a revival in Pesaro in 1941. Alberto Zedda edited Rossini's original work for publication by the Fondazione Rossini in 1979. Riccardo Zandonai (30 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian opera composer. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

Roles

This article is about the voice-type. ... A bass (or basso in Italian) is a male singer who sings in the deepest vocal range of the human voice. ... A mezzo-soprano (meaning medium soprano in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker (or lower) vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that... This article is about Tenor vocalists in music. ... A bass-baritone is a singing voice that shares certain qualities of both the baritone and the bass. ...

Synopsis

Ninetta hopes to marry Giannetto, returning from the war. She tries to shelter her father Fernando Villabella, who has deserted from the army, and is troubled by the attentions of the mayor, Gottardo. A missing spoon and the evidence of Isacco, the pedlar, who has bought a piece of silver from Ninetta to raise money for her father, lead to her accusation and imprisonment. She is tried and found guilty, to be saved from death at the last minute by the discovery of the thief, the thieving magpie of the title.

Arias

The most famous aria in the opera is probably Ninetta's prayer "Deh, tu reggi in tal memento". The soprano aria "Di piacer mi balza cor" and the tenor aria "Vieni fra queste braccia" (interestingly the cabaletta for the duet between Arturo and Elvira from Bellini's I Puritani starts with the exact same words) are two examples of Rossini's brilliant vocal writing.

Overture in popular culture

This overture, beginning and ending in E major, though passing through G major, makes a few appearances in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and has also provided the background score for many television, radio commercials. This key signature – A major or F# minor – consists of three sharps placed after the clef In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the... This key signature – A major or F# minor – consists of three sharps placed after the clef In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the... Kubrick redirects here. ... This article is about the film. ... Score is the name of a sexploitation film directed by Radley Metzger that was one of the first films to explore bi-sexual relationships. ... // Advert redirects here. ...

In Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind Up Bird Chronicles the overture is whistled by the waiter carrying the whiskey and ice in the hotel scenes. It is this that allows the main character Toru Okada to recognize his presence. Haruki Murakami , born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ...

The music is also used during the "baby-snatching" scene in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. ... Once Upon a Time in America (Italian title Cera una volta in America) is a 1984 crime film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. ...

An excerpt of the music was also used for Sony's Bravia TV advertisement campaign. Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... BRAVIA is a Sony brand used to market its high-definition LCD televisions as well as front and rear projection TVs. ...

Trivia

In Tintin's The Castafiore Emerald, the opera helps Tintin realize who has stolen Bianca Castafiore's prized emerald. The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...

References

Gazza ladra, La by Richard Osborne, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7 The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia (or encyclopedic dictionary) of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. ...

External sites

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