Semiramide
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Semiramide () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Semiramide
- Opera.genre
- Opera
- Opera.composer
- Gioachino Rossini
- Opera.image
- Rossini - Semiramide - Paris 1825 - Hippolyte Lecomte - Semiramis 1er Costume (Mdme Fodor) (cropped).jpg
- Opera.caption
- Joséphine Fodor as Semiramide for the Paris performance in 1825
- Opera.librettist
- Gaetano Rossi
- Opera.language
- Italian
- Opera.premiere_location
- La Fenice, Venice
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- Image
- Rossini - Semiramide - Paris 1825 - Hippolyte Lecomte - Semiramis 1er Costume (Mdme Fodor) (cropped).jpg
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- publication date
- 1823-00-00
- date of first performance
- 1823-02-03
- Commons category
- Semiramide (Rossini)
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- title
- Semiramide
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- Act 1
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- Recordings
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Semiramide () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823.
Semiramide was Rossini's final Italian opera and according to Richard Osborne, "could well be dubbed Tancredi Revisited". As in Tancredi, Rossi's libretto was based on a Voltaire tragedy. The music took the form of a return to vocal traditions of Rossini's youth, and was a melodrama in which he "recreated the baroque tradition of decorative singing with unparalleled skill". The ensemble-scenes (particularly the duos between Arsace and Semiramide) and choruses are of a high order, as is the orchestral writing, which makes full use of a large pit.