11. La Cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini
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Gioachino Rossini
by Pesaro, February 29, 1792; d Passy, November 13, 1868

Title Premiere
Demetrio e Polibio Rome, Teatro Valle, May 18, 1812 dramma serio ; libretto by Vincenza Viganò Mombelli after Pietro Metastasio's Demetrio
La cambiale di matrimonio
(The Bill of Marriage)
Venice, Teatro San Moisè, November 3, 1810 farsa comica ; libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after Camillo Federici's play by the same title
L'equivoco stravagante
(The Absurd Misunderstanding)
Bologna, Teatro del Corso, October 26, 1811 dramma giocoso ; libretto by Gaetano Gasparri
L'inganno felice
(The Happy Stratagem)
Venice, Teatro San Moisè, January 8, 1812 farsa ; libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, after Giuseppe Palomba's libretto for Giovanni Paisiello's opera by the same title
Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare
(Cyrus in Babylon , also The Fall of Belshazzar)
Ferrara, Teatro Comunale, March 14, 1812 dramma con cori ; libretto by Conte Francesco Aventi
La scala di seta
(The Silken Ladder)
Venice, Teatro San Moisè, May 9, 1812 farsa comica ; libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, after François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard's L'Échelle de soie
La pietra del paragone
(The Touchstone)
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, September 26, 1812 melodramma giocoso ; libretto by Luigi Romanelli
L'occasione fa il ladro
(Opportunity Makes the Thief)
Venice, Teatro San Moisè, November 24, 1812 burletta per musica ; libretto by Luigi Prividali
Il Signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo
(Mr. Bruschine , or A Son by Chance)
Venice, Teatro San Moisè, January 27, 1813 farsa giocosa ; libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, after Alisan de Chazet and E.-T. Maurice Ourry's Le fils par hazard
Tancredi Venice, Teatro La Fenice, February 6, 1813 melodramma eroico ; libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Voltaire's Tancrède
L'italiana in Algeri
(The Italian Girl in Algiers)
Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, May 22, 1813 dramma giocoso ; libretto by Angelo Anelli, originally set, under the same title, by Luigi Mosca
Aureliano in Palmira
(Aurelianus in Palmyra)
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1813 dramma serio ; libretto by Gian Francesco Romanelli
Il turco in Italia
(The Turk in Italy)
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, August 14, 1814 dramma buffo ; libretto by Felice Romani
Sigismondo Venice, Teatro La Fenice, December 26, 1814 dramma ; libretto by Giueppe Foppa
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
(Elizabeth, Queen of England)
Naples, Teatro San Carlo, October 4, 1815 dramma ; libretto by Giovanni Federico Schmidt, after Carlo Federici's play based on Sophia Lee's The Recess
Torvaldo e Dorliska Rome, Teatro Valle, December 26, 1815 dramma semiserio ; libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Il barbiere di Siviglia
(The Barber of Seville)
Rome, Teatro Argentina, February 20, 1816 commedia ; libretto by Cesare Sterbini, after Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais' Le Barbier de Séville and Giuseppe Petrosellini's libretto for Giovanni Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia
La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso
(The Gazette or The Marriage by Contest)
Naples, Teatro dei Fiorentini, September 26, 1816 dramma ; libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, after Carlo Goldoni's play by the same title; revised by Andrea Leone Tottola
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia
(Othello, or The Moor of Venice)
Naples, Teatro del Fonda, December 4, 1816 dramma ; libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa, after Shakespeare's Othello
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo
(Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphs)
Rome, Teatro Valle, January 25, 1817 dramma giocoso ; libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, after Charles Perrault's Cendrillon and probably both Charles-Guillaume Étienne's libretto for Niccolò Isouard's Cendrillon and Felice Romani's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina
La gazza ladra
(The Thieving Magpie)
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, May 31, 1817 melodramma ; libretto by Giovanni Gherardini, after Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez's La pie voleuse
Armida Naples, Teatro San Carlo, November 11, 1817 dramma ; libretto by Giovanni Federico Schmidt, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia
(Adelaide of Burgundy, or Ottone, King of Italy)
Rome, Teatro Argentina, December 27, 1817 dramma ; libretto by Giovanni Federico Schmidt
Mosè in Egitto
(Moses in Egypt)
Naples, Teatro San Carlo, March 5, 1818 azione tragico-sacra ; libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, after Padre Francesco Ringhieri's Sara in Egitto
Adina, o Il califfo di Bagdad
(Adina, or The Caliph of Bagdad)
Lisbon, Teatro de San Carlos, June 22, 1826 farsa ; libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini, derived from Felice Romani's Il Califfo e la schiava
Ricciardo e Zoraide Naples, Teatro San Carlo, December 3, 1818 dramma ; libretto by Marchese Francesco Berio di Salsa, after Niccolò Forteguerri's Il Ricciardetto
Ermione Naples, Teatro San Carlo, March 27, 1819 azione tragica ; libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, after Jean Racine's Andromaque
Eduardo e Cristina Venice, Teatro San Benedetto, April 24, 1819 dramma ; libretto by Giovanni Federico Schmidt, originally set to Stefano Pavei's Odoardo e Cristina ? revised by Andrea Leone Tottola and Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini
La donna del lago
(The Lady of the Lake)
Naples, Teatro San Carlo, October 24, 1819 melodramma ; libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre
(Bianca and Falliero, or The Council of Three)
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1819 melodramma ; libretto by Felice Romani, after Antoine-Vincent Arnault's Les vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin
Maometto II Naples, Teatro San Carlo, December 3, 1820 dramma ; libretto by Cesare della Valle, after Voltaire's Mahomet, ou Le Fanatisme
Matilde di Shabran
(Matilde of Shabran)
Rome, Teatro Apollo, February 24, 1821 melodramma giocoso ; libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François Benoît Hoffmann's libretto for Étienne Nicolas Méhul's Euphrosine, ou Le Tyran corrigé , itself derived from Voltaire
Zelmira Naples, Teatro San Carlo, February 16, 1822 dramma ; libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy's Zelmire
Semiramide Venice, Teatro La Fenice, February 3, 1823 melodramma tragico ; libretto by Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire's Sémiramis
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro
(The Journey to Reims, or The Golden Lily Inn)
Paris, Théâtre Italien, June 19, 1825 dramma giocoso ; libretto by Luigi Balocchi, after Madame de Staël's Corinne, ou L'Italie
Le siège de Corinthe
(The Siege of Corinth)
Paris, Opéra, October 9, 1826 tragédie lyrique ; libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, a refashioning of Duca di Ventignano's libretto for Maometto II
Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge
(Moses and Pharaoh, or The Passage of the Red Sea)
Paris, Opéra, March 26, 1827 opéra ; libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Étienne de Jouy, a refashioning of Andrea Leone Tottola's libretto for Mosè in Egitto
Le Comte Ory
(The Count Ory)
Paris, Opéra, August 20, 1828 opéra [oc]; libretto after a play by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, making use of numbers from Il viaggio a Reims
Guillaume Tell
(William Tell)
Paris, Opéra, August 3, 1829 opéra ; libretto Étienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis, and Armand Marrast, after Friedrich von Schiller's Wilhelm Tell


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