"Rossini! Rossini! Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. It depicts real life events of composer Gioachino Rossini. Monicelli replaced Robert Altman that, due to differences with the production, gave up. The film won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes. In 1868 the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is already famous all over the country. However, his last opera ""The Barber of Seville"" is not understood and even booed by the audience at La Scala for the indecency of the sets and love situations. Also disappointed by the replicas at the Teatro San"
"L'equivoco stravagante L'equivoco stravagante (; The Curious Misunderstanding) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri. It was Rossini's first attempt at writing a full two-act opera. ""L'equivoco stravagante"" was first performed at the Teatro del Corso, Bologna, on 26 October 1811. It was only performed three times before the police closed the production down, possibly because the text touched on the subject of army desertion. The music of the overture was subsequently lost. The opera was first produced in the United States (in English translation as ""The Bizarre Deception"")"
"Rossini entrusted the composition of the recitatives as well as the aria ""Le femmine d'Italia"" to an unknown collaborator. The opera is notable for Rossini's mixing of opera seria style with opera buffa. The overture is widely recorded and performed today, known for its distinct opening of slow, quiet pizzicato basses, leading to a sudden loud burst of sound from the full orchestra. This ""surprise"" reflects Rossini's early admiration for Joseph Haydn, whose Symphony No. 94 in G major, ""The Surprise Symphony"", is so named for the same shocking and semi-comic effect. The work was first performed at the Teatro"
"revised version of the libretto to music, under the title of ""Almaviva ossia la inutil precauzione"" the fans of Paisiello stormed the stage. Rossini's opera, now known as ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", is now acknowledged as Rossini's greatest work, while Paisiello's opera is only infrequently produced—a strange instance of poetical vengeance, since Paisiello himself had many years previously endeavoured to eclipse the fame of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by resetting the libretto of his famous intermezzo, ""La serva padrona"". Paisiello left Russia in 1784, and, after producing ""Il Re Teodoro"" at Vienna, entered the service of Ferdinand IV of Naples, where"
"artistry during which she never leaves the stage. It should be noted that, in the 1822 Venice revision, Rossini substituted his own aria """" from ""La donna del lago"" in order to achieve the conventional effect, as well as to create a happy ending. Also, as Gossett notes, a significant additional feature of the opera is that there are only five independent arias in the opera, only two of which end with cabalettas. In Venice, this version ""was well received when Rossini revised it for performances...at the Teatro La Fenice in December 1822."", his last composition for an Italian house."
"complete the composition of the opera. As such, ""The Thieving Magpie"" is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. The unique inspiration in the melodies is extreme, famously used to bizarre and dramatic effect in Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"". It was referenced by Haruki Murakami in his work ""The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."". This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. The first performance of ""The Thieving Magpie"" was on 31 May 1817, at La Scala, Milan. In 1818, Rossini revised"
"Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and ""Cinderella"" (""La Cenerentola""). He also wrote a string of serious operas in Italian, including works such as ""Tancredi"", ""Otello"", and ""Semiramide"". ""The Thieving"
"Bellini's ""I Puritani"" starts with exactly the same words) are two examples of Rossini's brilliant vocal writing. Notes Sources La gazza ladra La gazza ladra (, The Thieving Magpie) is a ""melodramma"" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ""La pie voleuse"" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The composer Giaochino Rossini wrote quickly, and ""La gazza ladra"" was no exception. According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of"
"La gazzetta La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso (The Newspaper, or The Marriage Contest) is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play ""Il matrimonio per concorso"" of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera ""was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."" Following the success of his ""Il Barbiere di Siviglia"" in Rome, the composer arrived in Naples in February"
"had been invited to write an inaugural hymn, but had declined. The plot bears striking, though unintentional, similarities to Metastasio's libretto ""La Nitteti"" (1756). Verdi originally chose to write a brief orchestral prelude instead of a full overture for the opera. He then composed an overture of the ""potpourri"" variety to replace the original prelude. However, in the end he decided not to have the overture performed because of its—his own words—""pretentious insipidity"". This overture, never used today, was given a rare broadcast performance by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 30 March 1940, but was never commercially"
"L'inganno felice L'inganno felice (The Fortunate Deception) is an opera in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. Rossini called his opera a ""farsa"", although as Richard Osborne explains: ""Its designation as a ""farsa"" is misleading in the light of its semiseria status as a romantic melodrama with buffo elements."" The work has much in common with French Revolutionary operas such as Cherubini's ""Les deux journées"". It was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice on 8 January 1812 and was an instant success. By the end of the 1810s it had been heard"
"La gazza ladra La gazza ladra (, The Thieving Magpie) is a ""melodramma"" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ""La pie voleuse"" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The composer Giaochino Rossini wrote quickly, and ""La gazza ladra"" was no exception. According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of which the composer threw out the sheets of music to the copyists who then wrote the orchestral parts, to"
"Milan. In a letter from 27 October 1869 to Ricordi, Verdi rails against delay or relocation, and not only blames Mariani for the situation, but remarks: ""Who would be the conductor at Milan? It cannot and must not be Mariani."" The performance of the composition, which was finished by the summer of 1869, was then cancelled. The manuscript subsequently fell into oblivion. Giuseppe Verdi adapted his own contribution, the concluding ""Libera me"", as the basis for that section when composing his own ""Messa da Requiem"". The complete Messa per Rossini was discovered by American musicologist David Rosen in 1970 and"
"major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem'. After Gioachino Rossini's death in 1868, Verdi suggested that a number of Italian composers collaborate on a ""Requiem"" in Rossini's honor. He began the effort by submitting the concluding movement, the ""Libera me"". During the next year a ""Messa per Rossini"" was compiled by Verdi and twelve other famous Italian composers of the time. The premiere was scheduled for 13 November 1869, the first anniversary of Rossini's death. However, on 4 November, nine days before the premiere, the organising committee abandoned it. Verdi blamed this on the scheduled conductor, Angelo"
"Il viaggio a Reims Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis) is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts, by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on ""Corinne, ou L'Italie"" by Mme de Staël. Rossini's last opera in the Italian language (all of his later works were in French) premiered under the title Le voyage à Reims, ou l'Hôtel du Lys-d'Or. It was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Reims in 1825 and has"
"to ""Fidelio"" is Rossini's ""Torvaldo e Dorliska"" of 1815. Bedřich Smetana's ""Dalibor"" (1868), which contains no spoken dialogue and which bears marks of Wagnerian influence, has nonetheless been called a rescue opera, in part because of its political themes. Rescue opera was primarily a product of the French Revolution. The social changes of the period meant that opera must now appeal to the masses, and post-aristocratic, patriotic, idealistic themes—such as resistance to oppression, secularism, the political power of individuals and of people working together, and fundamental changes to the status quo—were popular. The Terror influenced stories of fear and imprisonment;"
"turned to the opera ""Sigismondo"" written in 1814; the remaining two were written by a collaborator."" Rossini did not write an overture for the opera because no overture was specified in the contract, and he took little interest in the project. There is no apparent explanation for the eight-year gap between completion and first performance. After the opera's initial première it was not revived again until 1963, when it was performed at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. It was staged at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy,in 2018 with Lisette Oropesa in the title role. The music of ""Adina"" has"
"twelve other Italian composers on a ""Requiem for Rossini"", to be performed on the first anniversary of Rossini's death, conducted by Angelo Mariani. The music was written, but the performance was abandoned shortly before its scheduled premiere. Verdi re-used the ""Libera me, Domine"" he had written for the Rossini Requiem in his 1872 ""Requiem for Manzoni"". In 1989 the conductor Helmuth Rilling recorded the original ""Requiem for Rossini"" in its world premiere. In 1900, Giuseppe Cassioli created a monument to Rossini in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. The Library of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels possesses an important collection"
"the Casa Ricordi archives in Milan. This may be the score which Donizetti presented to Rubini, who presumably passed it through the hands of Giovanni Ricordi to Merelli. The sparkling overture includes a theme which is quite similar to that of Don Profondo's aria Medaglie Incomparabili from ""Il viaggio a Reims"" by Rossini. The opera premiered on 10 September 1839 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where it received twelve performances. There were seventeen further performances in 1845 at the Teatro Regio (Turin) and ten in 1846 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, but it was not staged"
"In 1979, Alberto Zedda edited Rossini's original composition of the opera for publication by the Fondazione Rossini. In 2013, the Bronx Opera of New York City performed an English-language version of ""La gazza ladra"". The overture has been featured in ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) and ""Immortal Beloved"" (1995). At the house of Fabrizio Vingradito and his wife Lucia there is joy for the imminent return of their son Giannetto from the war. One of the servants, Ninetta, is in love with Giannetto and all want the two to marry, except Lucia, who blames Ninetta for the recent loss of a"
"Teatro Rossini (Pesaro) Teatro Rossini is the name of an opera house in Pesaro, Italy that serves as a venue for the Rossini Opera Festival. Built as the ""Teatro Nuovo"" (on the site of the original 1637 ""Teatro del Sole""), it was inaugurated on 10 June 1818 with a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's ""La gazza ladra"" conducted by the composer in the town of his birth. It seats 860, with an auditorium designed in the classic horseshoe shape with four tiers of boxes plus the gallery. The theatre took its present name in the composer's honour in 1854. After a"
"the première on 24 September 1819 was not a success, there followed many performances throughout major European venues (as well as being presented in Cuba and by major South American houses) until about 1860, after which the opera disappeared until 1958. In modern times, performances have been given fairly frequently. The period between ""La gazza ladra"" (1817) and ""Semiramide"" (1823) was marked by the production of twelve operas of little significance, with the exception of ""La donna del lago"". After being obliged to leave Pesaro hurriedly in May 1819 (it turned out to be his last visit there), Rossini returned"
"Volpino, who retires baffled, while the false Turks drink the young couple's health at the cost of the two defeated suitors. Lo speziale Lo speziale (""The Apothecary""), Hob. 28/3, is a three-act opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni. A love triangle between the poor apprentice Mengone, the rich and assured dandy Volpino, and the local apothecary's ward, Grilletta, ""Lo speziale"" is a comedy of great warmth and ebullience. ""Lo speziale"" prefigures Mozart. It opens with an aria complaining about an apprentice apothecary's job, much like Leporello's opening aria in ""Don Giovanni"". The trouser role of"
"Il signor Bruschino Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (Signor Bruschino, or The Accidental Son) is a one act operatic farce (farsa giocosa per musica) by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, based upon the 1809 play ""Le fils par hasard, ou ruse et folie"" by René de Chazet and Maurice Ourry. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Moisè on 27 January 1813. From 1810 to 1813, the young Rossini composed four Italian farces, beginning with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"" (""Bill of Exchange of Marriage""), his first opera, and ending"
"after uncovering the deceit of Jago and the innocence of his wife.” As in Verdi's ""Otello"", Desdemona's aria """"Salce"""" (""Willow Song"") is a pivotal moment in the final act. Franz Liszt based the Canzone from the Années de Pèlerinage supplement Venezia e Napoli on the offstage gondolier's song ""Nessun maggior dolore"" from this opera. Notes Sources Otello (Rossini) Otello () is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa. The work is based on a French adaptation of the story, not Shakespeare's play ""Othello"" as neither Rossini nor his librettist"
"Armida (Rossini) Armida is an opera in three acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto (""dramma per musica"") by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from ""Gerusalemme liberata"" by Torquato Tasso. ""Armida"" was written to be performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 11 November 1817 to celebrate the opening of the rebuilt opera house, which had been destroyed by fire the previous year. Isabella Colbran sang the title role, which is one of the longest and most demanding that Rossini wrote, with difficult coloratura passages of every kind during the entire opera. The most notable"
"ah sorgerai"" ( ""Dawn! Ah! Will you always / Arise inauspiciously for me?""). Commons explains that this linking ""is evidence that Rossini was taking the first step towards a concept of an opera, not as a series of disparate items, but as an organized whole in which the parts refer back and forth to each other, adding extra resonances each time that material returns."" The aria ""Oh! quante lacrime finor versai"", from Act I of the opera, is notable for being the basis for Rossini's ""Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra"", a staple work of the solo clarinet"
"Péchés de vieillesse Péchés de vieillesse (""Sins of Old Age"") is a collection of 150 vocal, chamber and solo piano pieces by composer Gioachino Rossini, who was best known for his operas. The pieces are grouped into fourteen unpublished albums under this self-deprecating and ironic title. The ordering of the pieces in the albums does not reflect the sequence or the dates of their composition, which range from 1857 to shortly before Rossini's death in 1868. The title ""Péchés de vieillesse"" was given by Rossini only to volumes V-IX, but has since been extended to the complete set. He also"
"Magpie"" (""La gazza ladra"") features one of his most celebrated overtures. Rossini moved to Paris in 1824 where he began to set French librettos to music. His last opera was the epic ""William Tell"" (""Guillaume Tell""), featuring its iconic overture which helped to usher in grand opera in France. A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which earned him the nickname ""the Italian Mozart."" He was a rapid and prolific composer, quoted as joking, ""Give me the laundress' bill and I will even set that to music."" He also earned the nickname ""Signor Crescendo"" for his"
"Berdini, Afro Poli.) Conductor Bruno Bartoletti. Trieste, 1961. Gala GL 100.731 Notes Sources Le maschere Le maschere (""The Masks"") is an opera in a Prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions. It was premiered simultaneously in six Italian opera houses on 17 January 1901: La Scala (with Caruso as Florindo, Carelli as Rosaura, and Toscanini conducting); the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; the Teatro Regio in Turin; the Teatro Costanzi in Rome; La Fenice in Venice;"
"Le siège de Corinthe Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth) is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini set to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, which was based on the reworking of some of the music from the composer's 1820 opera for Naples, ""Maometto II"", the libretto of which was written by Cesare della Valle. ""Le siège"" was Rossini's first French opera (known also in its Italian version as ""L'assedio di Corinto"") and was first given at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 9 October 1826 The opera commemorates the"
"Ermione Ermione (1819) is a tragic opera (azione tragica) in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play ""Andromaque"" by Jean Racine. 19th century ""Ermione"" was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 27 March 1819. For reasons that are as yet unclear, the opera was withdrawn on 19 April after only seven performances, and was not seen again until over a hundred years after Rossini's death. One possible explanation for its failure might be Rossini's choice to renounce the use of ""secco"" recitative in favour of accompanied"
"1816 to discover that fire had destroyed the Teatro San Carlo, that he was obliged to compose a cantata to celebrate a royal wedding, plus supervise a production of his ""Tancredi"". And the music for ""La gazzetta"" was due for August performances. It would be Rossini's second opera written for Naples and the only comedy he wrote there. As was his wont, Rossini borrowed music from some of his previous works, These included ""Il Turco in Italia"" (1814), ""La pietra del paragone"" (1812), and also from ""Torvaldo e Dorliska"" (1815). None of these pieces would have heard by Naples' audiences"