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Gaetano Rossi (May 18, 1774 – January 25, 1855) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 writer who wrote opera libretti for several composers including Rossini, Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
, and Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
.

in Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
, Rossi was writing religious verse by the time that he was 13 years old. He began writing libretti in 1797, mostly 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.Farse were normally one-act operas, sometimes performed together with short ballets....
s in the beginning. In addition to his writing, he also worked for a time as the stage manager
Stage management

Stage management is a sub-discipline of stagecraft.Although a somewhat fluid line of work, in essence the stage management team is responsible for organizing the production, communicating across different disciplines , and keeping everything running smoothly....
 for the Teatro Filarmonico
Teatro Filarmonico (Verona)

The Teatro Filarmonico or Verona Philharmonic Theatre is the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, having been built in 1716, and later rebuilt after a fire of January 21, 1749, and again after the allied bombing of February 23, 1945....
 in Verona.

After a prolific writing career, he died in the city of his birth.

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Year stagedName of workType of workComposer(s)
1797Carolina e Mexicowtragedia per musicaNiccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

Niccol? Antonio Zingarelli was an italy composer, chiefly of opera....
1798Che originalifarsa
Farsa

Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta.Farse were normally one-act operas, sometimes performed together with short ballets....
 per musica		Johann Simon Mayr
Francesco Schira (1835)
1798Amore e paurafarsa per musicaVittorio Trento
1799Le quattro moglidramma 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 per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole....
 per musica		Gaetano Marinelli
1799Adelaide di Guesclinodramma di sentimentoJohann Simon Mayr
Francesco Gnecco (1800)
1799Labino e Carlottafarsa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1799Il sarto di Milanofarsa giocosa per musicaVincenzo Fiocchi
1799L’accademia in musicafarsa giocosa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1799Antigonadramma per musicaFrancesco Basili
1799Il ratto delle Sabinedramma per musicaNiccolò Antonio Zingarelli
1799La pazza giornatadramma comico per musicaMarcos António Portugal
1800Gli scitidramma per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1800La locandierafarsa giocosa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
Giuseppe Farinelli
Giuseppe Farinelli

Giuseppe Farinelli, actually Giuseppe Francesco Finco was an Italian opera composer....
 (1803) as Chi la durá la vince
1800I due cognomifarsa giocosa per musicaVittorio Trento
1801Gli sposi infatuatifarsa giocosa per musicaSebastiano Nasolini
1801Ginevra di Scoziadramma eroico per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
Giuseppe Mosca (1802)
Marcos António Portugal (1805) Vincenzo Pucitta
Vincenzo Pucitta

Vincenzo Pucitta was a nineteenth-century Italian composer. Born in Civitavecchia, he wrote more than 20 operas during his career. One of his works, La Vestale, after its premiere in London , was also sung in Lisbon , Milan and Rio de Janeiro ....
 (1812)
1801I virtuosifarsa giocosaJohann Simon Mayr
1801Argenedramma eroicaJohann Simon Mayr
Stefano Pavesi (1807) as Aristodemo
1801Adelaide e Tebaldodramma sentimentaleRaffaele Orgitano
1802La Giuliettadramma semi-serio
Opera semiseria

Opera semiseria is an Italy genre of opera, popular in the early and middle 19th century.Related to the opera buffa, opera semiseria contains elements of comedy but also of pathos, sometimes with a pastoral setting....
Giuseppe Farinelli
1802Pamelafarsa in musicaGiuseppe Farinelli
1803Il ventagliofarsa comica in musicaGiuseppe Farinelli
1803I riti d’Efesodramma eroicaGiuseppe Farinelli
Sebastiano Nasolini (1812)
1804Arsace e Semiradramma eroico in musicaFrancesco Gnecco
1804Il sordofarsa comica in musicaI.






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Gaetano Rossi (May 18, 1774 – January 25, 1855) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 writer who wrote opera libretti for several composers including Rossini, Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
, and Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
.

Biography

Born in Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
, Rossi was writing religious verse by the time that he was 13 years old. He began writing libretti in 1797, mostly 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.Farse were normally one-act operas, sometimes performed together with short ballets....
s in the beginning. In addition to his writing, he also worked for a time as the stage manager
Stage management

Stage management is a sub-discipline of stagecraft.Although a somewhat fluid line of work, in essence the stage management team is responsible for organizing the production, communicating across different disciplines , and keeping everything running smoothly....
 for the Teatro Filarmonico
Teatro Filarmonico (Verona)

The Teatro Filarmonico or Verona Philharmonic Theatre is the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, having been built in 1716, and later rebuilt after a fire of January 21, 1749, and again after the allied bombing of February 23, 1945....
 in Verona.

After a prolific writing career, he died in the city of his birth.

Works

Year stagedName of workType of workComposer(s)
1797Carolina e Mexicowtragedia per musicaNiccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

Niccol? Antonio Zingarelli was an italy composer, chiefly of opera....
1798Che originalifarsa
Farsa

Farsa is a genre of opera, associated with Venice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is also sometimes called farsetta.Farse were normally one-act operas, sometimes performed together with short ballets....
 per musica		Johann Simon Mayr
Francesco Schira (1835)
1798Amore e paurafarsa per musicaVittorio Trento
1799Le quattro moglidramma 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 per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole....
 per musica		Gaetano Marinelli
1799Adelaide di Guesclinodramma di sentimentoJohann Simon Mayr
Francesco Gnecco (1800)
1799Labino e Carlottafarsa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1799Il sarto di Milanofarsa giocosa per musicaVincenzo Fiocchi
1799L’accademia in musicafarsa giocosa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1799Antigonadramma per musicaFrancesco Basili
1799Il ratto delle Sabinedramma per musicaNiccolò Antonio Zingarelli
1799La pazza giornatadramma comico per musicaMarcos António Portugal
1800Gli scitidramma per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1800La locandierafarsa giocosa per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
Giuseppe Farinelli
Giuseppe Farinelli

Giuseppe Farinelli, actually Giuseppe Francesco Finco was an Italian opera composer....
 (1803) as Chi la durá la vince
1800I due cognomifarsa giocosa per musicaVittorio Trento
1801Gli sposi infatuatifarsa giocosa per musicaSebastiano Nasolini
1801Ginevra di Scoziadramma eroico per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
Giuseppe Mosca (1802)
Marcos António Portugal (1805) Vincenzo Pucitta
Vincenzo Pucitta

Vincenzo Pucitta was a nineteenth-century Italian composer. Born in Civitavecchia, he wrote more than 20 operas during his career. One of his works, La Vestale, after its premiere in London , was also sung in Lisbon , Milan and Rio de Janeiro ....
 (1812)
1801I virtuosifarsa giocosaJohann Simon Mayr
1801Argenedramma eroicaJohann Simon Mayr
Stefano Pavesi (1807) as Aristodemo
1801Adelaide e Tebaldodramma sentimentaleRaffaele Orgitano
1802La Giuliettadramma semi-serio
Opera semiseria

Opera semiseria is an Italy genre of opera, popular in the early and middle 19th century.Related to the opera buffa, opera semiseria contains elements of comedy but also of pathos, sometimes with a pastoral setting....
Giuseppe Farinelli
1802Pamelafarsa in musicaGiuseppe Farinelli
1803Il ventagliofarsa comica in musicaGiuseppe Farinelli
1803I riti d’Efesodramma eroicaGiuseppe Farinelli
Sebastiano Nasolini (1812)
1804Arsace e Semiradramma eroico in musicaFrancesco Gnecco
1804Il sordofarsa comica in musicaI. Girace
Giuseppe Farinelli (1805) as Il finto sordo
1804Pamela nubilefarsa in musicaPietro Generali
Pietro Generali

Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his Italy national basketball team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow....
1804La calzolaiafarsa comica in musicaPietro Generali
1804Elisadramma sentimentaleJohann Simon Mayr
1805Eraldo ed Emmadramma eroico per musicaJohann Simon Mayr
1805Trionfo d’Emiliadramma eroico per musicaStefano Pavesi
A. Rego (1807)
Francesco Sampieri (1818) as Il trionfo d’Emilia
1805Don Chisciotto de la Manciadramma giocosoPietro Generali
1805L’Amor coniugaledramma di sentimentoJohann Simon Mayr
1805La roccia di Frauensteinmelodramma
Melodramma

Melodramma is an Italy term for opera, used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early 19th century Italian libretto....
 eroi-comico		Johann Simon Mayr
1805Gli americanimelodramma eroicoJohann Simon Mayr
Nicola Antonio Manfroce (1810) as Alzira
Marcos António Portugal (1816) as Il trionfo di Gusmano
1806Attiladramma serio per musicaGiuseppe Farinelli
1807I cheruscimelodramma eroicoStefano Pavesi
Johann Simon Mayr (1808)
1807Calliroemelodramma eroicoGiuseppe Farinelli
1807Amor soldatodramma giocoso per musicaLuigi Antonio Calegari
1808La festa della rosamelodramma comicoStefano Pavesi
Carlo Coccia
Carlo Coccia

Carlo Coccia was an Italy opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria....
 (1821) as La festa da rosa
1809Guerre in pacefarsa per musicaN. Giuliani
1809Il trionfo delle belledramma eroi-comicoStefano Pavesi
1809Ziliafarsa in musicaC. Mellara
1809I gaurimelodramma eroicaC. Mellara
1809Ippolita, regina delle amazzonimelodramma eroicaStefano Pavesi
1810Adelinafarsa giocosa per musicaPietro Generali
1810La cambiale di matrimonio
La cambiale di matrimonio

La cambiale di matrimonio is a one-act operatic farsa by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici as well as on a previous libretto written by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio....
farsa comicaGioachino Rossini
1810Cecchina suonatrice di Ghirondamelodramma comicoPietro Generali
1811L’amor figlialemelodramma di sentimentoJohann Simon Mayr
1811I solitarjmelodramma di sentimentoCarlo Coccia
1811Idomeneomelodramma eroicoGiuseppe Farinelli
1811Tre maritifarsa comica in musicaGiuseppe Mosca
G. Carulli (1825)
G. L. Bazzoni (1836)
1812Il qui pro quoMelodramma comicoFerdinando Orlandi
1812Il finto Stanislao, re di PoloniaMelodramma comicoGiuseppe Mosca
1812Il marito imbarazzofarsaMellara
1812Teodoromelodramma eroicoStefano Pavesi
1813Tancredi
Tancredi

Tancredi is an opera in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancr?de . Though Rossini first composed his opera with a happy ending in mind, he eventually had the poet Luigi Lechi rework the libretto to emulate the original tragic ending by Voltaire....
melodramma eroicoGioachino Rossini
1813I baccantidramma per musicaFerdinando Paer
Ferdinando Paer

Ferdinando Pa?r was an Italy composer....

Pietro Generali (1816) as I baccanti di Roma
1814Avviso al pubblicomelodramma comicoGiuseppe Mosca
1814Il crescendo?Carlo Coccia
1814Trajano in Daciadramma eroico per musicaFelice Blangini
1814Evellinamelodramma eroicoCarlo Coccia
1815La fedeltà conjugaledramma semiserioAntonio Brunetti
1815La figlia dell’ariamelodramma eroi-comicoF. Paini
Manuel García
Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García

Manuel del P?pulo Vicente Rodriguez Garc?a, sometimes known as Manuel Garc?a father was a noted Spain opera singer, composer, impresario and singing teacher....
 (1826)
1815Celaniramelodramma eroicoStefano Pavesi
1815Clotildemelodramma semi-serioCarlo Coccia
1815Zoraidemelodramma eroicoGiuseppe Farinelli
1816Malvinamelodramma di sentimentoNicola Vaccai
Nicola Vaccai

Nicola Vaccai, , was an Italy composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher.He grew up in Pesaro, and studied music there until his parents sent him to Rome to study law....
1816Etelindamelodramma semiserioCarlo Coccia
Peter Winter
Peter Winter

Peter Winter was a Germans opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Carl Maria von Weber, acting a bridge between the two in the development of German opera....
 (1818)
Pellegrini (1831)
1817Romilda e Costanzamelodramma semiserioGiacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
1817Lanassamelodramma eroicoJohann Simon Mayr
1817Adelaide e Comingiomelodramma semi-serioGiovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini was an Italy composer, best known for his operas....
1819La sposa fedelemelodramma semiserioGiovanni Pacini
1819Emma di Resburgomelodramma eroicoGiacomo Meyerbeer
F. Celli (1821)
Carolina Uccelli (1835) as Anna di Resburgo
1820Il conte di Lenossemelodramma eroicoGiuseppe Nicolini
1821L’eroe di Lancastromelodramma serioGiuseppe Nicolini
Lord Burghersh (1829)
1821Maria Stuarda, regina di Scoziadramma serio per musicaSaverio Mercadante
Saverio Mercadante

File:Saverio Mercadante by Cefaly.jpgGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italy composer, particularly of operas....
1821Valmiro e Zaidadramma per musicaFrancesco Sampieri
1822Tebaldo e Isolinamelodramma eroicoFrancesco Morlacchi
Francesco Morlacchi

Francesco Morlacchi was an Italy composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera....
1823Semiramide
Semiramide

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.The libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon ....
melodramma tragicoGioachino Rossini
1824Ilda d’Avenelmelodramma eroicoFrancesco Morlacchi
Giuseppe Nicolini (1828)
1824Il crociato in Egitto
Il crociato in Egitto

Il crociato in Egitto is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at La Fenice theatre, Venice on 7 March, 1824....
melodramma eroicoGiacomo Meyerbeer
1826Il pariamelodramma tragicoMichele Carafa
Michele Carafa

Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italy opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1840 to 1858....
1826Mitridatemelodramma eroicoGiovanni Tadolini
1827Giovanna d’Arcomelodramma romanticoNicola Vaccai
1828I cavalieri di Valenzamelodramma tragicoGiovanni Pacini
A. Gandini (1830) as Isabella di Lara
Francesco Schira (1836) as Os cavalleiros de Valenca
U. Fontana (1836) as Isabella di Lara
1828L’orfano della selvamelodramma comicoCarlo Coccia
N. Paoletti (1839)
1830Maria di Brabantemelodramma eroicoGuillon
A. Gandini (1833)
1830Amore e misteromelodramma comicoFeliciano Strepponi
1830La donna bianca di Avenellomelodramma comicoStefano Pavesi
Gallieri (1854)
1830Malek-Adelmelodramma eroicoGiuseppe Nicolini
Benedetto Bergonzi (1835)
1831FenellamelodrammaStefano Pavesi
1831BeniowskimelodrammaPietro Generali
1831Chiara di RosemberghmelodrammaLuigi Ricci
Luigi Ricci

Luigi Ricci , was an Italy composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....
1831Enrico di MonfortmelodrammaCarlo Coccia
1832IvanhoemelodrammaGiovanni Pacini
1833Gli ElvezimelodrammaGiovanni Pacini
1833Irenetragedia liricaGiovanni Pacini?
1834Hernani (Ernani)melodramma (dramma serio)Vincenzo Gabussi
1835Carlo di Borgogna
Carlo di Borgogna

Carlo di Bologna is an Italian opera in three parts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on February 21, 1835....
melodrammo romanticoGiovanni Pacini
1835La fidanzata delle isolemelodrammo romanticoP. Candio
1835Chiara di Montalbano in Franciamelodramma semiserioLuigi Ricci
1837Il giuramentomelodrammaSaverio Mercadante
1837Iginia d’AstimelodrammaS. Levy
1837Il rapimentomelodramma comicoPlacido Mandanici
1838Le nozze di Figaromelodramma comicoLuigi Ricci
1838Le due illustri rivalimelodrammaSaverio Mercadante
1838La prigione d’ Edimburgomelodramma semiserioFederico Ricci
Federico Ricci

Federico Ricci , was an Italy composer, particularly of operas.Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....
1838Alisia di RieuxmelodrammaGiuseppe Lillo
1839RomildamelodrammaFerdinand Hiller
Ferdinand Hiller

Ferdinand Hiller was a German people composer, Conductor , writer and music-director....

L. Gavazzeni (1845)
C. Boniforti (1847) as Velleda B. Prati (1854) as Amilda
1839RossanemelodrammaFranz Schoberlechner
1839Il bravomelodrammaSaverio Mercadante
1840Giovanna II regina di NapolimelodrammaCarlo Coccia
1840Ginevra degli AlmierimelodrammaSamuele Levi
1841Clemenza di ValoismelodrammaVincenzo Gabussi
1841Il proscrittomelodramma tragicoOtto Nicolai
1841Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla

Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Gaetano Rossi and the composer wrote the Italian language libretto after Fran?ois Ancelot's play....
melodramma (with Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
)		Gaetano Donizetti
1842Linda di Chamounix
Linda di Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix is a melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi....
melodrammaGaetano Donizetti
1846Romea di MonfortmelodrammaCarlo Pedrotti
1851Il Lazzaronemelodramma comicoFrancesco Berger, G. Rota, Alberto Randegger
Alberto Randegger

Alberto Randegger was an Italian-born composer, conductor and singing teacher, best known for promoting opera and new works of British music in England during the Victorian era and for his widely-used textbook on singing technique....
 and A. Zelman
1852Il perruchiere della reggenzamelodramma comicoCarlo Pedrotti
1852Il marito e l’amantedramma comicoFederico Ricci
1853Il paniere d’amoremelodramma comicoFederico Ricci
1854Genoveffa del BrabantemelodrammaCarlo Pedrotti
1856I Romani in PompejanomelodrammaG. Rota
1859Il diavolo a quattromelodramma comicoLuigi Ricci
1880Tancredadramma liricoTheodor Döhler