Operas by Gioachino Rossini

La scala di seta (1812) Tancredi (1813) L'italiana in Algeri (1813) Il Signor Bruschino (1813) Il turco in Italia (1814) The Barber of Seville (1816) La gazzetta (1816) Otello (1816) La Cenerentola ( 1817) La gazza ladra (1817) Adelaide di Borgogna (1817) Mosè in Egitto (1818) La donna del lago (1819) Matilde di Shabran (1821) Semiramide (1823) Il viaggio a Reims (1825) Le siège de Corinthe (1826) Moïse et Pharaon ( 1827) Le comte Ory (1828) Guillaume Tell ( 1829) Giacchino 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. ... 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 a comic opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca. ... 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. ... A seductive Turk visits Italy to discover European customs. ... The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) is a comic opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini with a libretto (based on Beaumarchaiss comedy Le Barbier de Séville) by Cesare Sterbini. ... 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 is a comic opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is an opera 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. ... 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. ... 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. ...

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, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel’s play Mathilde. The opera received its first performance in Rome at the Teatro Apollo, 24 February 1821^[1] under the baton of the violinist Niccolo Paganini^[2] It received its first performance in a revised version at the Pesaro Festival in 1996^[3] Giacchino Rossini. ... Etienne Henri (or Nicolas) Méhul (June 24, 1763 - October 18, 1817), was a French composer. ... The Tor di Nona— now a small area in Romes Rione V called Ponte, which lies in the heart of the citys historic center, between the via dei Coronari and the Tiber— commemorates an unregretted mediaeval tower which stood there. ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Niccolò Paganini Niccolò Paganini, (Genoa, October 27, 1782 - Nice, May 27, 1840) was a violinist and composer. ... The Rossini Opera Festival (frequently referred to among musicians as the Pesaro Festival) is a festival held in August of each year in Pesaro, Italy, the birthplace of the opera composer Gioacchino Rossini The Festival was established in 1980 for giving performances of Rossinis operas and to give to...

Setting

The action takes place in and around Corradino's castle, in Spain.

Characters

• Corradino, Cuor di ferro, tenor
• Matilde di Shabran, soprano
• Raimondo Lopez, bass, father of
• Edoardo, alto
• Aliprando, physician, baritone
• Isidoro, poet, basso buffo
• Contessa d'Arco, mezzo-soprano
• Ginardo, keeper of the tower, bass
• Egoldo, leader of the peasants, tenor
• Rodrigo, leader of the guards, tenor
• Udolfo, jailer, silent
• Male chorus of guards and peasants
• Peasant women

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References

1. ^ Opera Today
2. ^ Rossini's life.
3. ^ Opera Today

Source

• Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993)

External link

• [1] Libretto

Recording

Album cover of Matilde de Shabran with Juan Diego Florez and Annick Massis.

• Matilde di Shabran - Annick Massis, Juan Diego Florez, Bruno Taddia, Hadar Halevy, Marco Vinco, Bruno de Simone, Chiara Chialli, Carlo Lepore, Gregory Bonfatti, Prague Chamber Choir, Orchestra Sinfónica de Galicia / Riccardo Frizza. Recorded live at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro Italy, August 2004. DECCA 475 7688