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
Demetrio e Polibio	dramma serio	2 acts	ViganoVincenzina Vigano-Mombelli, possibly after Metastasio	1812-05-1818 May 1812 (composed 1806-1809)	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 Alissan 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
Ivanhoé (consists entirely of music taken from earlier Rossini operas by Antonio Pacini)	pastiche	3 acts	Emile Deschamps and Gabriel-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

1. Richard Osborne 2007, p. 216, credits Romani, while Charles Osborne 1994, p. 38, credits Romanelli. See Aureliano in Palmira for more details.
2. 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.
3. The opera was originally intended for performance in Vienna.
4. The libretto may also have been derived from one by Metastasio, which Rossi used for Semramide riconosciuta by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
5. 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