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.... composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868).
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 comica
1 act
Gaetano Rossi
Gaetano Rossi
Gaetano Rossi was an Italy writer who wrote opera libretti for several composers including Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Giacomo Meyerbeer.... , after Camillo Federici
Camillo Federici
Camillo Federici was an Italy dramatist and actor.He was born at Garessio, a small town in Piedmont. His real name was Giovanni Battista Viassolo; he took his pen-name from the title of one of his first pieces, Camillo e Federico.... and Giuseppe Checcherini
Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area .... , Teatro San Moisè
Teatro San Moisè
The Teatro San Mois? was an opera house in Venice, active from 1640 to 1818. It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Mois? at the entrance to the Grand Canal....
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....
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River.... , Teatro del Corso
Demetrio e Polibio is a two-act operatic dramma serio by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Vincenzina Vigan?-Mombelli. The opera was orchestrated for String instrument only....
Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some .... , Teatro Valle
Teatro Valle
The Teatro Valle is a theatre and former opera house in Rome.Commissioned by the Capranica family, the architect Tommaso Morelli designed the theatre which was built in 1726....
L'inganno felice is an opera in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. Foppa reworked the libretto which Giuseppe Palomba had written for an opera of the same name by Paisiello ....
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....
Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare in an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Francesco Aventi. It was first performed at the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara during Lent, 1812....
Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara.It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north.... , Teatro comunale di Ferrara
'La scala di seta' is an operatic farsa comica in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. It was first performed in Venice, Italy at the Teatro San Mois? on May 9, 1812....
La pietra del paragone is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini, to an original Italian language libretto by Luigi Romanelli....
Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy.... , Teatro alla Scala
'L?occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia' is an opera in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Prividali, based on Le pr?tendu par hazard, ou L?occasion fait le larron, a play by Eug?ne Scribe....
burletta per musica
1 act
Eugène Scribe
Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eug?ne Scribe , was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" . This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years....
'Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo' is a one act operatic farce by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, based upon the play Le fils par hasard, ou ruse et folie by Alissan de Chazet and E.T.M....
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 eroico
2 acts
Voltaire
Voltaire
Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
'L'italiana in Algeri' 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....
Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian language libretto probably by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, although the libretto has sometimes been attributed to Felice Romani....
dramma serio
2 acts
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli was an Italy painter of the Baroque.Born in Viterbo to Laura de Angelis and Bartolommeo Romanelli. At age 14, he was sent to live in Rome and make his fortune as an artist, and within a few years was housed in the palace of Francesco Barberini, and became one of the main pupils of the studio of Pietro da Cort... or Felice Romani, after G Sertor
Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian language-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzol? set as an opera by the German composer :de:Franz Seydelmann in 1788....
Sigismondo is an operatic 'dramma' in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa.The opera was not a success and Rossini later re-used some of its music in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra....
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, 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....
Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old.... , Teatro San Carlo
Torvaldo e Dorliska is an operatic opera semiseria in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on Les amours du chevalier de Faubles by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodo?ska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini , and Lodoiska set by Steph...
dramma semiserio
2 acts
Cesare Sterbini
Cesare Sterbini
Cesare Sterbini was an Italian writer.He is known for two libretto for operas by Gioacchino Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska and The Barber of Seville .... , after J-B de Coudry's Vie et amours du chevalier de Faubles (1790) and other libretti based on this work
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The overture, first written for Aureliano in Palmira, is a famous example of Rossini's characteristic Italian style....
Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some .... , Teatro Argentina
Teatro Argentina
The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. It is one of the oldest theatres in Rome, and was inaugurated on January 31, 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro....
La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763....
The term opera buffa was at first used as an informal description of Italy comic operas variously classified by their authors as ?commedia in musica?, ?commedia per musica?, ?dramma bernesco?, ?dramma comico?, ?divertimento giocoso' etc.... )
2 acts
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was a celebrated Republic of Venice playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors....
Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello....
dramma
3 acts
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
La Cenerentola, ossia La bont? in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella....
dramma giocoso
2 acts
Jacopo Ferretti
Jacopo Ferretti
Jacopo Ferretti was an Italy writer, poet and opera librettist.He is most famous for having supplied the libretti for two operas by Gioachino Rossini... , after C Perrault's Cendrillon
La gazza ladra 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....
Armida is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso....
dramma
3 acts
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso was an Italy poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem .... 's Gerusalemme liberata
Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia is a two-act opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. It was premi?red at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on 27 December 1817....
Mos? in Egitto is a three-act opera written by Gioacchino Rossini which premiered 5 March 1818 at the recently reconstructed Teatro San Carlo, Naples....
azione tragico-sacra
3 acts
Andrea Leone Tottola
Andrea Leone Tottola
Andrea Leone Tottola was a prolific Italy libretto, best-known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.It is not known when or where he was born.... , after Francesco Ringhieri
Adina is an operatic farsa in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera develops the popular theme of the "abduction from the seraglio."...
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....
Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha... , Teatro Reale San Carlo
Ricciardo e Zoraide is an opera in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Francesco Berio de Salsa. The text is based on cantos XIV and XV of Il Ricciardetto, an epic poem by Niccol? Forteguerri ....
Ermione is a tragedy opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine....
Eduardo e Cristina is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto originally written by Giovanni Schmidt for Odoardo e Cristina , an opera by Stefano Pavesi, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini....
La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic works....
melodramma
2 acts
Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scotland historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America.... 's The Lady of the Lake
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Felice Romani....
melodramma
2 acts
Antoine-Vincent Arnault
Antoine-Vincent Arnault
Antoine-Vincent Arnault , was a France dramatist.Arnault was born in Paris. His first play, Marius ? Minturne , immediately established his reputation....
Matilde di Shabran , ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro , is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Fran?ois-Beno?t Hoffman?s libretto for ?tienne M?hul?s Euphrosine and Jacques Marie Boutet's play Mathilde....
Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Teatro di San Carlo operas....
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 ....
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro is an operatic dramma giocoso in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou L'Italie by Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l....
dramma giocoso
1 act
Madame de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Sta?l, was a French language-speaking Swiss people author living in Paris and abroad....
Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France .... , Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique
Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819 and set in 12th century England, an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes given credit for helping to increase Middle Ages in history in 19th century Europe and United States .... (comprised entirely of music taken from earlier Rossini operas)
The Od?on is one of France's six "national Theater ", located in the VIe arrondissement , on the Left Bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden in Paris....
Le si?ge de Corinthe is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French language libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, based on Maometto II by Cesare della Valle.... , a revision of Maometto secondo
tragédie lyrique
3 acts
Alexandre Soumet
Alexandre Soumet
Alexandre Soumet , France poet, was born at Castelnaudary, d?partement of Aude.His father wished him to enter the army, but an early-developed love of poetry turned the boy's ambition in other directions.... , after the libretto for Maometto II
Paris, Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique
Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la mer rouge, a revision of Mosè in Egitto
opéra
4 acts
Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy
Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy
Victor-Joseph ?tienne de Jouy , France dramatist, was born at Versailles.At the age of eighteen he received a commission in the army, and sailed for South America in the company of the governor of French Guiana.... , after the libretto for Mosè in Egitto
Le comte Ory is an opera written by Gioacchino Rossini in 1828. Some of the music originates from his opera Il viaggio a Reims written three years earlier for the coronation of Charles X of France....
The Opera Comique was a 19th-century opera house constructed between Wych Street and Holywell Street with entrances on the East Strand, London. The theatre opened in 1870 and was demolished in 1902, for the construction of the Aldwych and Kingsway.... )
Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell ....
