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The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during the first half of the 19th-century. Though working at the same time as Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, he was recognized by his contemporaries as the greatest Italian composer of his time, an evaluation which has lasted into the 21st-century.

The operas are catalogued in a critical edition from the Fondazione Rossini [it], Pesaro, and published by Casa Ricordi. This edition identifies individual operas by their EC numbers (Edizione critica).

List of operas

Pasticci with Rossini's permission

Other pasticci utilising Rossini's music

Notes and references

Notes

1. Originally written (1808) for Luigi Mosca
2. Richard Osborne 2007, p. 216, credits Romani, while Charles Osborne 1994, p. 38, and Weinstock 1987, p. 40, credit Gian Frencesco Romanelli. Libretti d'opera italiani lists Luigi Romanelli as librettist. See Aureliano in Palmira for more details; after Gaetano Sertor [Wikidata]
3. 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
4. Several libretti derived from it such as Charles-Guillaume Étienne's libretto for Nicolas Isouard (1810) and Francesco Fiorini's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina (1814)
5. Possibly after Felice Romani's libretto Il Califfo e la schiava for Francesco Basily (1819)
6. originally written for Stefano Pavesi), revised for Rossini by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini and Andrea Leone Tottola
7. The libretto is stated to have been derived from della Valle's own play Anna Erizo (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.
8. also titled Matilde Shabran , Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro and Corradino
9. The opera was originally intended for performance in Vienna.
10. The libretto may also have been derived from one by Metastasio, which Rossi used for Semiramide riconosciuta by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
11. now usually 1 act
12. Rossini and Adolphe Crémieux have also been credited for the libretto (Sadie, 2006, p. 270).
13. Da Ponte had written the work in 1789 and revised it in 1791, 1792 and 1830. Only the 1830 revision uses Rossini's music.
14. Stanford University erroneously cites the premiere taking place in 1846.
15. Also its only performance

References

1. Fondazione Rossini 1979–2021.
2. "Gioachino Rossini – Critical Editions", Casa Ricordi
3. Information is from Gossett (2001), unless otherwise noted.

Sources

• Cagli, Bruno; Gossett, Philip; Zedda, Albert, eds. (1979–2021). Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini [Critical edition of the works of Gioachino Rossini]. Pesaro; Milan: Fondazione Rossini; Casa Ricordi. OCLC 14718769.
• Gossett, Philip (2001). "Rossini, Gioachino". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23901. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
• 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 (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518129-6.
• Weinstock, Herbert (1987) . Rossini: A Biography. Limelight Editions. ISBN 9780879100711.

External links

• Media related to Operas by Gioachino Rossini at Wikimedia Commons
• "The thirty-nine operas of Gioachino Rossini" by Robert J. Farr, 16 November 2005, musicweb-international.com
• A Pega Ladra: drama em 2 actos, 1853 publication, Portuguese, digitized by BYU on archive.org

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