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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Information about the composer Gioachino Rossini and his operas.

A prolific Italian composer. He composed more than 30 operas, and is reputed to have composed very quickly, writing his most famous opera, «E3H:Il barbiere di Siviglia», in under two weeks. Along with «1S:Gaetano Donizetti» and «BD:Vincenzo Bellini» he is considered one of the three great Bel Canto opera composers.

Operas (complete):

In chronological order (major works in bold):

La cambiale di matrimonio - 1810

L'equivoco stravagante (The Bizarre Deception) - 1811

L'occasione fa il ladro - 1812

Ciro in Babilonia - 1812

Demetrio e Polibio - 1812

La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) - 1812

La pietra del paragone - 1812

L'inganno felice (The happy deception) - 1812

Il Signor Bruschino (Signor Bruschino) - 1813 a

Tancredi - 1813 b

L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian girl in Algiers) - 1813 c

Aureliano in Palmira - 1813 d

Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) - 1814 a

Sigismondo - 1814 b

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra - 1815 a

Torvaldo e Dorliska - 1815 b

Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) - 1816 a

La gazzetta - 1816 b

Otello (Othello) - 1816 c

La Cenerentola (Cinderella) - 1817 a

La gazza ladra (The Theiving Magpie) - 1817 b

Armida - 1817 c

Adelaide di Borgogna - 1817 d

Mosè in Egitto (Moses in Egypt) - 1818 a

Adina - 1818 b, 1826

Riccardo e Zoraide - 1818 c

Ermione - 1819 a

Eduardo e Cristina - 1819 b

La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) - 1819 c

Bianca e Falliero - 1819 d

Maometto secondo - 1820

Matilde di Shabran - 1821

Zelmira - 1822

Semiramide - 1823

Il viaggio a Reims - 1825

Le Siège de Corinthe (The Seige of Corinth, L'assedio di Corinto) - 1826

Moïse et Pharaon - 1827

Le Comte Ory (Count Ory) - 1828

Guillaume Tell (William Tell, Guglielmo Tell) - 1829