List of operas by Rossini
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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.
Contents
List of operas composed
| Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere date | Place, opera house |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demetrio e Polibio | dramma serio | 2 acts | Vincenzina Vigano-Mombelli, possibly after Metastasio | 18 May 1812 (composed 1806-1809) |
Rome, Teatro Valle |
| La cambiale di matrimonio | farsa comica | 1 act | Gaetano Rossi, after Camillo Federici and Giuseppe Checcherini's libretto (1807) for Carlo Coccia | 3 November 1810 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| L'equivoco stravagante | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Gaetano Gasbarri | 26 October 1811 | Bologna, Teatro del Corso |
| L'inganno felice | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Giuseppe Palomba's libretto (1798) for Giovanni Paisiello | 8 January 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare |
dramma con cori | 2 acts | Francesco Aventi | 14 March 1812 | Ferrara, Teatro comunale di Ferrara |
| La scala di seta | farsa comica | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard's libretto (1808) for Pierre Gaveaux | 9 May 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| La pietra del paragone | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Luigi Romanelli | 26 September 1812 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia |
burletta per musica | 1 act | Luigi Prividali, after Le prétendu sans le savoir (1810) by Eugène Scribe | 24 November 1812 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo |
farsa giocoso | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Le fils par hasard (1809) by René de Chazet and Maurice Ourry | 27 January 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Tancredi | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire; revised by Luigi Lechi |
6 February 1813; revised version: 21 March 1813 |
Venice, Teatro La Fenice; revised version: Ferrara |
| L'italiana in Algeri | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli, originally written (1808) for Luigi Mosca | 22 May 1813 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
| Aureliano in Palmira | dramma serio | 2 acts | G.F.R. (attributed to Felice Romani, possibly in collaboration with Luigi Romanelli, or Gian Francesco Romanelli[1]), after Gaetano Sertor | 26 December 1813 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Il turco in Italia | dramma buffo | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Caterino Mazzolà's libretto (1788) for Franz Seydelmann | 14 August 1814 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Sigismondo | dramma | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 26 December 1814 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
| Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra | dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, after Carlo Federici and Sophia Lee | 4 October 1815 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Torvaldo e Dorliska | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Cesare 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 | 26 December 1815 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione (initially titled Almaviva) |
commedia | 2 acts | Cesare Sterbini, after Beaumarchais and Giuseppe Petrosellini's libretto (1782) for Giovanni Paisiello | 20 February 1816 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
| La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso |
dramma (opera buffa) | 2 acts | Giuseppe Palomba (revised by Andrea Leone Tottola), after Il matrimonio per concorso (1763) by Carlo Goldoni | 26 September 1816 | Naples, Teatro de' Fiorentini |
| Otello, ossia Il Moro di Venezia |
dramma | 3 acts | Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after the play by William Shakespeare | 4 December 1816 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo |
| La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo |
dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Jacopo 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) | 25 January 1817 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
| La gazza ladra | melodramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Gherardini, after La Pie voleuse (1815) by Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez | 31 May 1817 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Armida | dramma | 3 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, after Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso | 11 November 1817 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia |
dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt | 27 December 1817 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
| Mosè in Egitto | azione tragico-sacra | 3 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after L'Osiride (1760) by Francesco Ringhieri | 5 March 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Adina, ossia Il califfo di Bagdad |
farsa | 1 act | Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini, possibly after Felice Romani's libretto Il Califfo e la schiava for Francesco Basily (1819) | 22 June 1826 (composed 1818) |
Lisbon, Teatro Reale di San Carlo |
| Ricciardo e Zoraide | dramma | 2 acts | Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after the poem Ricciardetto by Niccolò Forteguerri | 3 December 1818 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Ermione | azione tragica | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Andromaque (1667) by Jean Racine | 27 March 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Eduardo e Cristina (sometimes titled Edoardo e Cristina) |
dramma | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt (originally written [1810] for Stefano Pavesi), revised for Rossini by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini and Andrea Leone Tottola | 24 April 1819 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
| La donna del lago | melodramma | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott | 24 October 1819 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre |
melodramma | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Blanche et Montcassin by Antoine-Vincent Arnault | 26 December 1819 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Maometto II (revised 1822) |
dramma | 2 acts | Cesare della Valle, possibly after Felice Romani;[2] revised by Gaetano Rossi |
3 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 | Jacopo 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 | 24 February 1821 | Rome, Teatro Apollo |
| Zelmira | dramma | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Zelmire (1762) by Dormont de Belloy | 16 February 1822 | Naples,[3] Teatro di San Carlo |
| Semiramide | melodramma tragico | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire[4] | 3 February 1823 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice |
| Ugo, re d'Italia (unfinished) |
dramma? | 3? acts | Gaetano Rossi? | not performed (composed 1823-1824) |
intended for London |
| Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro |
dramma giocoso | 3 acts; now usually 1 act |
Luigi Balocchi, after Corinne, ou L'Italie by Madame de Staël | 19 June 1825 | Paris, Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique |
| Le siège de Corinthe (revision of Maometto secondo) |
tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, after the libretto for Maometto II | 9 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 | Luigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after the libretto for Mosè in Egitto | 26 March 1827 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
| Le comte Ory | opéra (opéra comique) | 2 acts | Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson | 20 August 1828 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
| Guillaume Tell | opéra | 4 acts | Victor-Joseph-Ėtienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis and Armand Marrast, after Friedrich Schiller[5] | 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 15 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 | 30 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 Semramide 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
