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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. ... 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. ... 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... 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. ...

Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. First performance: Teatro del Fondo, Naples, 1816. The opera deviates quite heavily from Shakespeare's original, not only in that it takes place in Venice and not on Cyprus, but also in that the whole dramatic conflict develops in a different manner. A recent Opera Rara CD of the opera even includes an alternative happy ending, a common practice with drama and opera at one time. The role of Jago is reduced to some degree and is much less diabolical as in the original or in Verdi's - much later - version. Nevertheless, Rossini's Otello is an important milestone in the development of opera as musical drama. It obviously provided Giuseppe Verdi with a benchmark for his own adaptations of Shakespeare for opera. The New Opera in Oslo, Norway The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)[1] was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown A play, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialog between characters, and intended for performance rather than reading. ... Title page of the first quarto edition of Othello, published in 1622 The Tragedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written around 1603. ... Naples (Italian: , Neapolitan: Nàpule, from Greek Νεάπολη < Νέα Πόλις Néa Pólis New City) Capital of the Campania region and the Province of Naples. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...


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Rossini operas (825 words)
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Rossini was born in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy, the son of a mother and father that were very involved in the orchestral and operatic world of Italy at the time.
Rossini’s greatest work had such an impact on his country that he was exempted from military service due to his talent alone.
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In 1869, Verdi composed a section for a Requiem Mass in memory of Gioacchino Rossini.
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