Tancredi
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Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancrède. The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice i
Portrait of the composer
Francesco Bagnara's set for Act 1 scene 1, Venice 1833
La pietra del paragone
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La pietra del paragone is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Romanelli.
Tancredi
…La Fenice in Venice on 6 February 1813, less than a month after the premiere of his previous opera Il signor Bruschino. The overture, borrowed from La pietra del paragone, is a popular example of Rossini's characteristic style and is regularly performed in concert and recorded. Considered by Stendhal, Rossini's earliest…
Rossini ca. 1815