List of operas by Rossini
This is a list of the operas of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868). See List of compositions by Gioachino Rossini for his other works.
List of operas composed
Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere date | Place, opera house |
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Demetrio e Polibio | dramma serio | 2 acts | ViganoVincenzina Vigano-Mombelli, possibly after Metastasio | 1812-05-1818 May 1812 (composed 1806–09) | Rome, Teatro Valle |
La cambiale di matrimonio | farsa comica | 1 act | RossiGaetano Rossi, after Camillo Federici and Giuseppe Checcherini's libretto (1807) for Carlo Coccia | 1810-11-033 November 1810 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
equivocoL'equivoco stravagante | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | GasbarriGaetano Gasbarri | 1811-10-2626 October 1811 | Bologna, Teatro del Corso |
ingannoL'inganno felice | farsa | 1 act | FoppaGiuseppe Maria Foppa, after Giuseppe Palomba's libretto (1798) for Giovanni Paisiello | 1812-01-088 January 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare | dramma con cori | 2 acts | AventiFrancesco Aventi | 1812-03-1414 March 1812 | Ferrara, Teatro comunale di Ferrara |
scalaLa scala di seta | farsa comica | 1 act | FoppaGiuseppe Maria Foppa, after François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard's libretto (1808) for Pierre Gaveaux | 1812-05-099 May 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
pietraLa pietra del paragone | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Romanelli, L.Luigi Romanelli | 1812-09-2626 September 1812 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia | burletta per musica | 1 act | PrividaliLuigi Prividali, after Le prétendu sans le savoir (1810) by Eugène Scribe | 1812-11-2424 November 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
signorIl signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo | farsa giocoso | 1 act | FoppaGiuseppe Maria Foppa, after Le fils par hasard (1809) by René de Chazet and Maurice Ourry | 1813-01-2727 January 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Tancredi | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | RossiGaetano Rossi, after Voltaire; revised by Luigi Lechi | 1813-02-066 February 1813; revised version: 21 March 1813 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice; revised version: Ferrara |
italianaL'italiana in Algeri | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | AnelliAngelo Anelli, originally written (1808) for Luigi Mosca | 1813-05-2222 May 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
Aureliano in Palmira | dramma serio | 2 acts | G.F.R.G.F.R. (attributed to Felice Romani, possibly in collaboration with Luigi Romanelli, or Gian Francesco Romanelli[1]), after Gaetano Sertor | 1813-12-2626 December 1813 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
turcoIl turco in Italia | dramma buffo | 2 acts | RomaniFelice Romani, after Caterino Mazzolà's libretto (1788) for Franz Seydelmann | 1814-08-1414 August 1814 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
Sigismondo | dramma | 2 acts | FoppaGiuseppe Maria Foppa | 1814-12-2626 December 1814 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra | dramma | 2 acts | SchmidtGiovanni Schmidt, after Carlo Federici and Sophia Lee | 1815-10-044 October 1815 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Torvaldo e Dorliska | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | SterbiniCesare Sterbini, after Jean-Baptiste de Coudry's Vie et amours du chevalier de Faubles (1790) and other libretti based on this work such as Claude-François Fillette-Loraux's libretto (1791) for Luigi Cherubini and Francesco Gonella's libretto for (1796) Simon Mayr and Ferdinando Paer | 1815-12-2626 December 1815 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
BarberIl barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione (initially titled Almaviva) | commedia | 2 acts | SterbiniCesare Sterbini, after Beaumarchais and Giuseppe Petrosellini's libretto (1782) for Giovanni Paisiello | 1816-02-2020 February 1816 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
gazzettaLa gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso | dramma (opera buffa) | 2 acts | PalombaGiuseppe Palomba (revised by Andrea Leone Tottola), after Il matrimonio per concorso (1763) by Carlo Goldoni | 1816-09-2626 September 1816 | Naples, Teatro de' Fiorentini |
Otello, ossia Il Moro di Venezia | dramma | 3 acts | BerioFrancesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after the play by William Shakespeare | 1816-12-044 December 1816 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo |
CenerentolaLa Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | FerrettiJacopo Ferretti, after Cendrillon (1698) by Charles Perrault and several libretti derived from it such as Charles-Guillaume Etienne's libretto for Nicolas Isouard (1810) and Francesco Fiorini's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina (1814) | 1817-01-2525 January 1817 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
gazzaLa gazza ladra | melodramma | 2 acts | GherardiniGiovanni Gherardini, after La Pie voleuse (1815) by Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez | 1817-05-3131 May 1817 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
Armida | dramma | 3 acts | SchmidtGiovanni Schmidt, after Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso | 1817-11-1111 November 1817 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia | dramma | 2 acts | SchmidtGiovanni Schmidt | 1817-12-2727 December 1817 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
Mosè in Egitto | azione tragico-sacra | 3 acts | TottolaAndrea Leone Tottola, after L'Osiride (1760) by Francesco Ringhieri | 1818-03-055 March 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Adina, ossia Il califfo di Bagdad | farsa | 1 act | BevilacquaGherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini, possibly after Felice Romani's libretto Il Califfo e la schiava for Francesco Basily (1819) | 1826-06-2222 June 1826 (composed 1818) | Lisbon, Teatro Reale di San Carlo |
Ricciardo e Zoraide | dramma | 2 acts | BerioFrancesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after the poem Ricciardetto by Niccolò Forteguerri | 1818-12-033 December 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Ermione | azione tragica | 2 acts | TottolaAndrea Leone Tottola, after Andromaque (1667) by Jean Racine | 1819-03-2727 March 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Eduardo e Cristina (sometimes titled Edoardo e Cristina) | dramma | 2 acts | SchmidtGiovanni Schmidt (originally written [1810] for Stefano Pavesi), revised for Rossini by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini and Andrea Leone Tottola | 1819-04-2424 April 1819 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
donnaLa donna del lago | melodramma | 2 acts | TottolaAndrea Leone Tottola, after The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott | 1819-10-2424 October 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre | melodramma | 2 acts | RomaniFelice Romani, after Blanche et Montcassin by Antoine-Vincent Arnault | 1819-12-2626 December 1819 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
Maometto II (revised 1822) | dramma | 2 acts | della ValleCesare della Valle, possibly after Felice Romani;[2] revised by Gaetano Rossi | 1820-12-033 December 1820; revised version: 26 December 1822 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo; revised version: Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro (also titled Matilde Shabran [initially], Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro [Naples, 1821] and Corradino [Milan, also 1821]) | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | FerrettiJacopo Ferretti, after François-Benoît Hoffman's libretto Euphrosine, ou Le tyran corrigé (1790) for Étienne Méhul and Jacques-Marie Boutet de Monvel (1798), derived from Voltaire | 1821-02-2424 February 1821 | Rome, Teatro Apollo |
Zelmira | dramma | 2 acts | TottolaAndrea Leone Tottola, after Zelmire (1762) by Dormont de Belloy | 1822-02-1616 February 1822 | Naples,[3] Teatro di San Carlo |
Semiramide | melodramma tragico | 2 acts | RossiGaetano Rossi, after Voltaire[4] | 1823-02-033 February 1823 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
Ugo, re d'Italia (unfinished) | dramma? | 3? acts | RossiGaetano Rossi? | 1823-00-00not performed (composed 1823-1824) | intended for London |
viaggioIl viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro | dramma giocoso | 3 acts; now usually 1 act | BalocchiLuigi Balocchi, after Corinne, ou L'Italie by Madame de Staël | 1825-06-1919 June 1825 | Paris, Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique |
siègeLe siège de Corinthe (revision of Maometto secondo) | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | BalocchiLuigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, after the libretto for Maometto II | 1826-10-099 October 1826 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la mer rouge (revision of Mosè in Egitto) | opéra | 4 acts | BalocchiLuigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after the libretto for Mosè in Egitto | 1827-03-2626 March 1827 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
comteLe comte Ory | opéra (opéra comique) | 2 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson | 1828-08-2020 August 1828 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
TellGuillaume Tell | opéra | 4 acts | JouyVictor-Joseph-Ėtienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis and Armand Marrast, after Friedrich Schiller[5] | 1829-08-033 August 1829 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
Works derived from Rossini operas with the composer's permission
Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere date | Place, theatre |
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Ivanhoé (consists entirely of music taken from earlier Rossini operas by Antonio Pacini) | pastiche | 3 acts | Emile Deschamps and Gustave de Wailly, after Walter Scott's Ivanhoe | 1826-09-1515 September 1826 | Paris, Odéon |
Robert Bruce (adapted by Louis Niedermeyer from La donna del lago, Zelmira, Bianca e Falliero, Torvaldo e Dorliska and Armida) | pastiche | 3 acts | Jean-Nicolas van Nieuwenhuysen and Alphonse Royer | 1846-12-3030 December 1846 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
References
Notes
- ↑ Richard Osborne 2007, p. 216, credits Romani, while Charles Osborne 1994, p. 38, credits Romanelli. See Aureliano in Palmira for more details.
- ↑ The libretto is stated to have been derived from della Valle's own play Anna Erisso (1820) but may have come from Romani's libretto Maometto (1817) for Peter von Winter. Others have erroneously stated Voltaire's Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le Prophète as a potential source.
- ↑ The opera was originally intended for performance in Vienna.
- ↑ The libretto may also have been derived from one by Metastasio, which Rossi used for Semiramide riconosciuta by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
- ↑ The composer and Adolphe Crémieux have also been credited for the libretto (Sadie, 2006, p. 270).
Sources
- Gossett, Philip (1992). "Rossini, Gioachino" (work-list). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie, 4 vols. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-73432-7.
- Osborne, Charles (1994). The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-0-931340-71-0.
- Osborne, Richard (2007). Rossini: His Life and Works, second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518129-6.
- Center for Italian Opera Studies at The University of Chicago
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