Gaetano Rossi
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Gaetano Rossi was an Italian
Italy
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 writer who wrote opera
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...

 libretti
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

 for several composers including Mayr
Simon Mayr
Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...

, Rossini, Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

, Mercadante
Saverio Mercadante
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...

, Pacini
Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...

, and Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

.

Biography

Born in Verona
Verona
Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, 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....

s in the beginning. In addition to his writing, he also worked for a time as the stage manager
Stage management
Stage management is the practice of organizing and coordinating a theatrical production. It encompasses a variety of activities, including organizing the production and coordinating communications between various personnel...

 for the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

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

Works

Year staged Name of work Type of work Composer(s)
1797 Carolina e Mexicow tragedia per musica Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera.-Early career:Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied at the Santa Maria di Loreto Conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza....

1798 Che originali 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....

 per musica
Simon Mayr
Simon Mayr
Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...


Francesco Schira (1835)
1798 Amore e paura farsa per musica Vittorio Trento
1799 Le quattro mogli 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...

 per musica
Gaetano Marinelli
1799 Adelaide di Guesclino dramma di sentimento Simon Mayr
Francesco Gnecco (1800)
1799 Labino e Carlotta farsa per musica Simon Mayr
1799 Il sarto di Milano farsa giocosa per musica Vincenzo Fiocchi
1799 L’accademia in musica farsa giocosa per musica Simon Mayr
1799 Antigona dramma per musica
Dramma per musica
Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...

Francesco Basili
Francesco Basili
Francesco Basili was an Italian composer and conductor. He was born in Loreto and died in Rome.-References:...

1799 Il ratto delle Sabine dramma per musica Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
1799 La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro dramma comico per musica Marcos Portugal
Marcos Portugal
Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal was a Portuguese classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas in Italian....

1800 Gli sciti dramma per musica Simon Mayr
1800 La locandiera farsa giocosa per musica Simon Mayr
Giuseppe Farinelli
Giuseppe Farinelli
Giuseppe Farinelli was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century who excelled in writing opera buffas...

 (1803) as Chi la durá la vince
1800 I due cognomi farsa giocosa per musica Vittorio Trento
1801 Gli sposi infatuati farsa giocosa per musica Sebastiano Nasolini
1801 Ginevra di Scozia dramma eroico per musica 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)
1801 I virtuosi farsa giocosa Simon Mayr
1801 Argene dramma eroica Simon Mayr
Stefano Pavesi
Stefano Pavesi
Stefano Pavesi was an Italian composer.Born in Casaletto Vaprio, he is best known for his many operas.. He died at Crema, Lombardy in 1850.-References:...

 (1807) as Aristodemo
1801 Adelaide e Tebaldo dramma sentimentale Raffaele Orgitano
1802 La Giulietta dramma semi-serio
Opera semiseria
Opera semiseria is an Italian 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. It can usually be distinguished from tragic operas or melodramas by the presence...

Giuseppe Farinelli
1802 Pamela farsa in musica Giuseppe Farinelli
1803 Il ventaglio farsa comica in musica Giuseppe Farinelli
1803 I riti d'Efeso
I riti d'Efeso
I riti d'Efeso is a dramma eroico per musica or opera in 2 acts and 26 scenes by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The work premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 26 December 1803 in a double bill with Filippo Beretti's Atamaro e Obeide.-Roles:...

dramma eroica Giuseppe Farinelli
Sebastiano Nasolini (1812)
1804 Arsace e Semira dramma eroico in musica Francesco Gnecco
1804 Il sordo farsa comica in musica I. Girace
Giuseppe Farinelli (1805) as Il finto sordo
1804 Pamela nubile farsa in musica Pietro Generali
Pietro Generali
Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...

1804 La calzolaia farsa comica in musica Pietro Generali
1804 Elisa dramma sentimentale Simon Mayr
1805 Eraldo ed Emma dramma eroico per musica Simon Mayr
1805 Trionfo d’Emilia dramma eroico per musica Stefano Pavesi
A. Rego (1807)
Francesco Sampieri (1818) as Il trionfo d’Emilia
1805 Don Chisciotto de la Mancia dramma giocoso Pietro Generali
1805 L’Amor coniugale dramma di sentimento Simon Mayr
1805 La roccia di Frauenstein 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...

 eroi-comico
Simon Mayr
1805 Gli americani melodramma eroico Simon Mayr
Nicola Antonio Manfroce
Nicola Antonio Manfroce
Nicola Antonio Manfroce was an Italian composer.-References:...

 (1810) as Alzira
Marcos António Portugal (1816) as Il trionfo di Gusmano
1806 Attila dramma serio per musica Giuseppe Farinelli
1807 I cherusci melodramma eroico Stefano Pavesi
Simon Mayr (1808)
1807 Calliroe
Calliroe (Farinelli)
Calliroe is a melodramma eroico or opera in 2 acts and 23 scenes by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The work premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 3 January 1808 in a double bill with the house premiere of Urbano Garzia's ballet Il...

melodramma eroico Giuseppe Farinelli
1807 Amor soldato dramma giocoso per musica Luigi Antonio Calegari
Luigi Antonio Calegari
Luigi Antonio Calegari was an Italian opera composer. He was nephew of Antonio Calegari and possibly related to other composers in the Padua Calegari family; Father Francesco Antonio Calegari , and Giuseppe Calegari, composer of a Betulia liberata .-Operas:*Il matrimonio scoperto ossia Le...

1808 La festa della rosa melodramma comico Stefano Pavesi
Carlo Coccia
Carlo Coccia
Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...

 (1821) as La festa da rosa
1809 Guerre in pace farsa per musica N. Giuliani
1809 Il trionfo delle belle dramma eroi-comico Stefano Pavesi
1809 Zilia farsa in musica C. Mellara
1809 I gauri melodramma eroica C. Mellara
1809 Ippolita, regina delle amazzoni melodramma eroica Stefano Pavesi
1810 Adelina
Adelina (opera)
Adelina is an opera farsa in one act, by the Italian composer Pietro Generali with words by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice on either 15 or 16 September 1810...

farsa giocosa per musica Pietro Generali
1810 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 Gioachino Rossini
1810 Cecchina suonatrice di Ghironda melodramma comico Pietro Generali
1811 L’amor figliale melodramma di sentimento Simon Mayr
1811 I solitarj melodramma di sentimento Carlo Coccia
1811 Idomeneo melodramma eroico Giuseppe Farinelli
1811 Tre mariti farsa comica in musica Giuseppe Mosca
G. Carulli (1825)
G. L. Bazzoni (1836)
1812 Il qui pro quo Melodramma comico Ferdinando Orlandi
Ferdinando Orlandi
Ferdinando Orlandi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. Born in Parma, he was a pupil of organist Gaspare Rugarli and composer Ferdinando Paer. He also studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples with Nicola Sala and Giacomo Tritto. In 1800 he took a position at...

1812 Il finto Stanislao, re di Polonia Melodramma comico Giuseppe Mosca
1812 Il marito imbarazzo farsa Mellara
1812 Teodoro melodramma eroico Stefano Pavesi
1813 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 Gioachino Rossini
1813 I baccanti dramma per musica Ferdinando Paer
Ferdinando Paer
-Biography:Paer was born at Parma. His father was a trumpeter with the Ducal Bodyguards and also performed at church and court events. His name, Ferdinando, was after Duke Ferdinand of Parma and was given to him by Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Duke Ferdinand's wife...


Pietro Generali (1816) as I baccanti di Roma
1814 Avviso al pubblico melodramma comico Giuseppe Mosca
1814 Il crescendo ? Carlo Coccia
1814 Trajano in Dacia dramma eroico per musica Felice Blangini
Felice Blangini
Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini, a musical composer, was born in Turin in 1781, and died in Paris, Dec. 1841. At 12 he was organist of the cathedral in that city, and at 14 led a mass with a full orchestra. He went to Paris in 1799, and was for several years a successful composer of opera there...

1814 Evellina melodramma eroico Carlo Coccia
1815 La fedeltà conjugale dramma semiserio Antonio Brunetti
1815 La figlia dell’aria melodramma eroi-comico F. Paini
Manuel García
Manuel García (tenor)
Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García was a Spanish opera singer, composer, impresario, and singing teacher.-Biography:...

 (1826)
1815 Celanira melodramma eroico Stefano Pavesi
1815 Clotilde melodramma semi-serio Carlo Coccia
1815 Zoraide melodramma eroico Giuseppe Farinelli
1816 Malvina melodramma di sentimento Nicola Vaccai
Nicola Vaccai
Nicola Vaccai was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher.-Life and career as a composer:...

1816 Etelinda melodramma semiserio Carlo Coccia
Peter Winter
Peter Winter
Peter Winter was a German opera composer who followed Mozart and preceded Weber, acting as a bridge between the two in the development of German opera....

 (1818)
Pellegrini (1831)
1817 Romilda e Costanza melodramma semiserio Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...

1817 Lanassa melodramma eroico Simon Mayr
1817 Adelaide e Comingio melodramma semi-serio Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...

1819 La sposa fedele melodramma semiserio Giovanni Pacini
1819 Emma di Resburgo melodramma eroico Giacomo Meyerbeer
F. Celli (1821)
Carolina Uccelli
Carolina Uccelli
-Biography:Carolina Uccelli was born in Florence and made her debut as a composer with the performance of the sacred opera Saul at the Teatro della Pergola on 21 June 1830. Uccelli wrote both libretto and music for the opera. A two-act melodrama Anna di Resburo with libretto by Gaetano Rossi was...

 (1835) as Anna di Resburgo
1820 Il conte di Lenosse melodramma eroico Giuseppe Nicolini
Giuseppe Nicolini
Giuseppe Nicolini was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to religious music...

1821 L’eroe di Lancastro melodramma serio Giuseppe Nicolini
Lord Burghersh
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC , styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.-Background:...

 (1829)
1821 Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia dramma serio per musica Saverio Mercadante
Saverio Mercadante
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...

1821 Valmiro e Zaida dramma per musica Francesco Sampieri
1822 Tebaldo e Isolina melodramma eroico Francesco Morlacchi
Francesco Morlacchi
Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian 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.-Biography:...

1823 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 Gioachino Rossini
1824 Ilda d’Avenel melodramma eroico Francesco Morlacchi
Giuseppe Nicolini (1828)
1824 Il 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. The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti; the opera was probably the last ever written...

melodramma eroico Giacomo Meyerbeer
1826 Il paria melodramma tragico Michele Carafa
Michele Carafa
Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...

1826 Mitridate melodramma eroico Giovanni Tadolini
Giovanni Tadolini
Giovanni Tadolini was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably best known for completing six sections of Rossini's 1833 version of the Stabat mater after the latter fell sick...

1827 Giovanna d’Arco melodramma romantico Nicola Vaccai
1828 I cavalieri di Valenza melodramma tragico Giovanni Pacini
A. Gandini (1830) as Isabella di Lara
Francesco Schira (1836) as Os cavalleiros de Valenca
U. Fontana (1836) as Isabella di Lara
1828 L’orfano della selva melodramma comico Carlo Coccia
N. Paoletti (1839)
1830 Maria di Brabante melodramma eroico Guillon
A. Gandini (1833)
1830 Amore e mistero melodramma comico Feliciano Strepponi
1830 La donna bianca di Avenello melodramma comico Stefano Pavesi
Gallieri (1854)
1830 Malek-Adel melodramma eroico Giuseppe Nicolini
Benedetto Bergonzi (1835)
1831 Fenella melodramma Stefano Pavesi
1831 Beniowski melodramma Pietro Generali
1831 Chiara di Rosembergh melodramma Luigi Ricci
1831 Enrico di Monfort melodramma Carlo Coccia
1832 Ivanhoe melodramma Giovanni Pacini
1833 Gli Elvezi melodramma Giovanni Pacini
1833 Irene tragedia lirica Giovanni Pacini?
1834 Hernani (Ernani) melodramma (dramma serio) Vincenzo Gabussi
1835 Carlo di Borgogna
Carlo di Borgogna
Carlo di Borgogna 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.- Roles:- Synopsis :Part One...

melodrammo romantico Giovanni Pacini
1835 La fidanzata delle isole melodrammo romantico P. Candio
1835 Chiara di Montalbano in Francia melodramma semiserio Luigi Ricci
1837 Il giuramento melodramma Saverio Mercadante
1837 Iginia d’Asti melodramma S. Levy
1837 Il rapimento melodramma comico Placido Mandanici
Placido Mandanici
Placido Mandanici was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo , and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi. In 1829 his first opera , L'isola disabitata, premiered in Naples...

1838 Le nozze di Figaro melodramma comico Luigi Ricci
1838 Le due illustri rivali melodramma Saverio Mercadante
1838 La prigione d’ Edimburgo melodramma semiserio Federico Ricci
Federico Ricci
Federico Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....

1838 Alisia di Rieux melodramma Giuseppe Lillo
Giuseppe Lillo
Giuseppe Lillo was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas which followed in the same vein of Gioachino Rossini. He also produced works for solo piano, a small amount of sacred music, and some chamber music....

1839 Romilda melodramma Ferdinand Hiller
Ferdinand Hiller
Ferdinand Hiller was a German composer, conductor, writer and music-director.-Biography:Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus was a merchant in English textiles – a business eventually continued by Ferdinand’s brother Joseph...


L. Gavazzeni (1845)
C. Boniforti (1847) as Velleda
B. Prati (1854) as Amilda
1839 Rossane melodramma Franz Schoberlechner
1839 Il bravo melodramma Saverio Mercadante
1840 Giovanna II regina di Napoli melodramma Carlo Coccia
1840 Ginevra degli Almieri melodramma Samuele Levi
Samuele Levi
Samuele Levi was an Italian composer born in Venice. He is best known for his four operas: Iginia d'Asti , Ginerva degli Almieri , Giuditta , and La biscagliata . He died in Florence.-References:...

1841 Clemenza di Valois melodramma Vincenzo Gabussi
1841 Il proscritto melodramma tragico Otto Nicolai
1841 Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Gaetano Rossi and the composer wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's play. It premiered on December 26, 1841 at La Scala, Milan...

melodramma (with Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

)
Gaetano Donizetti
1842 Linda di Chamounix
Linda di Chamounix
Linda di Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna, at the Kärntnertortheater, on May 19, 1842.-Performance history:...

melodramma Gaetano Donizetti
1846 Romea di Monfort melodramma Carlo Pedrotti
Carlo Pedrotti
Carlo Pedrotti was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci.-Early life:Pedrotti was born in Verona, where he studied music...

1851 Il Lazzarone melodramma comico Francesco 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.-Life and career:Randegger was born in Trieste, Italy, the son of...


A. Zelman
1852 Il perruchiere della reggenza melodramma comico Carlo Pedrotti
1852 Il marito e l’amante dramma comico Federico Ricci
1853 Il paniere d’amore melodramma comico Federico Ricci
1854 Genoveffa del Brabante melodramma Carlo Pedrotti
1856 I Romani in Pompejano melodramma G. Rota
1859 Il diavolo a quattro melodramma comico Luigi Ricci
1880 Tancreda dramma lirico Theodor Döhler
Theodor Döhler
Theodor Döhler was a German composer and a notable piano virtuoso of the Romantic period. He studied under Julius Benedict, Carl Czerny, and Simon Sechter. -Childhood and education:...

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