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Composer
Gioacchino Rossini Gioacchino Rossini
1792 - 1868 IT 3*
Bio
Born: 29/02/1792, Pesaro IT
Died: 13/11/1868, Passy FR
Gioachino Rossini was born into a family of musicians. He studied in the Conservatorio of Bologna. In 1810 at the age of 18 he produced his first opera. In 1813 he created Tancredi which had an enormous success. In 1815 he wrote Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, a first of a long serie of operas in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer’s wife, played the leading role. His immortal Barber of Seville was created in 1816, he second masterpiece La Cenerentola in 1817. In 1824 at the age of 32, after spending time in London and Paris, Rossini was able to go into semi-retirement with essentially financial independence. The production of his Guillaume Tell in 1829 brought his career as a writer of opera to a close. As of 1932 till his death in 1868 at the age of 76 he was no longer active as a composer.
Genres
Dramma per musica, Opera buffa, Pasticcio, Dramma giocoso, Opera semiseria, Farsa
Operas
La scala di seta IT - 1812 - Farsa
Tancredi IT - 1813
L'italiana in Algeri IT - 1813 1*
Il turco in Italia IT - 1814
Il barbiere di Siviglia IT - 1816 3* - Opera buffa
Otello IT - 1816 - Dramma per musica
La Cenerentola IT - 1817 3* - Opera buffa
La gazza ladra IT - 1817 - Opera semiseria
Mosè in Egitto IT - 1818
La donna del lago IT - 1819
Semiramide IT - 1823 1*
Le siège de Corinthe FR - 1826
Le comte Ory FR - 1828
Guillaume Tell FR - 1829
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