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• Armida

  Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto (dramma per musica) by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Armida was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 11 November, 1817. Isabella Colbran sang the title...

• Maometto II

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  Sigismondo is an operatic 'dramma' in two act by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. The opera was not a success and Rossini later re-used some of its music in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra. Sigismondo was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on 26...

• Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra

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  La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott. This opera was the first to be based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic works. By 1840, barely 20 years after La donna del lago, there were 25 Italian...

• Eduardo e Cristina

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