The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during the first half of the 19th century. Though working at the same time as Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, he was recognized by his contemporaries as the greatest Italian composer of his time, an evaluation which has lasted into the 21st century.

The operas are catalogued in a critical edition from the , Pesaro, and published by Casa Ricordi. This edition identifies individual operas by their EC numbers ()."Gioachino Rossini – Critical Editions", Casa Ricordi

List of operas + Operas by Gioachino RossiniInformation is from , unless otherwise noted. Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere Date Venue Demetrio e Polibio(composed 1806–1809) dramma serio 2 acts Vincenzina Viganò-Mombelli, possibly after Pietro Metastasio 18 May 1812 Teatro Valle,Rome I/1 La cambiale di matrimonio farsa comica 1 act Gaetano Rossi, after Camillo Federici and libretto (1807) for Carlo Coccia 3 November 1810 Teatro San Moisè,Venice I/2 L'equivoco stravagante dramma giocoso 2 acts 26 October 1811 Teatro del Corso,Bologna I/3 L'inganno felice farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after libretto (1798) for Giovanni Paisiello 8 January 1812 Teatro San Moisè,Venice I/4 Ciro in Babilonia ,ossia La caduta di Baldassare dramma con cori 2 acts 14 March 1812 Teatro Comunale, Ferrara I/5 La scala di seta farsa comica 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Eugène de Planard's libretto (1808) for Pierre Gaveaux 9 May 1812 Teatro San Moisè,Venice I/6 La pietra del paragone melodramma giocoso 2 acts Luigi Romanelli Teatro alla Scala,Milan I/7 L'occasione fa il ladro , ossia Il cambio della valigia burletta per musica 1 act , after Eugène Scribe's Le prétendu sans le savoir (1810) 24 November 1812 Teatro San Moisè,Venice I/8 Il signor Bruschino,ossia Il figlio per azzardo farsa giocosa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa, after Le fils par hasard (1809) by René de Chazet and Maurice Ourry 27 January 1813 Teatro San Moisè,Venice I/9 Tancredi(revised March 1813) melodramma eroico 2 acts Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire;revised by 6 February 1813; 21 March 1813 Teatro La Fenice,Venice Ferrara, Teatro Comunale I/10 L'italiana in Algeri dramma giocoso 2 acts Angelo Anelli 22 May 1813 Teatro San Benedetto,Venice I/11 Aureliano in Palmira dramma serio 2 acts Attributed to Felice Romani, possibly in collaboration with Luigi Romanelli, or Gian Francesco Romanelli 26 December 1813 Teatro alla Scala,Milan I/12 Il turco in Italia dramma buffo 2 acts Felice Romani, after Caterino Mazzolà's libretto (1788) for 14 August 1814 Teatro alla Scala,Milan I/13 Sigismondo dramma 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 26 December 1814 Teatro La Fenice,Venice I/14 Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra dramma 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt, after Carlo Federici and Sophia Lee 4 October 1815 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/15 Torvaldo e Dorliska opera semiseria 2 acts Cesare Sterbini, after Jean-Baptiste de Coudry's Vie et amours du chevalier de Faubles (1790) 26 December 1815 Teatro Valle,Rome I/16 Il barbiere di Siviglia,ossia L'inutile precauzione(initially titled Almaviva) commedia 2 acts Cesare Sterbini, after Pierre Beaumarchais and Giuseppe Petrosellini's libretto (1782) for Giovanni Paisiello 20 February 1816 Teatro Argentina,Rome I/17 La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso dramma (opera buffa) 2 acts ( by Andrea Leone Tottola), after Il matrimonio per concorso (1763) by Carlo Goldoni 26 September 1816 Teatro de' Fiorentini,Naples I/18 Otello,ossia Il Moro di Venezia dramma 3 acts , after Othello, ou le More de Venise (1792) by Ducis 4 December 1816 Teatro del Fondo,Naples I/19 La Cenerentola,ossia La bontà in trionfo dramma giocoso 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti, after Cendrillon (1698) by Charles Perrault 25 January 1817 Teatro Valle,Rome I/20 La gazza ladra opera semiseria 2 acts , after La Pie voleuse (1815) by Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez 31 May 1817 Teatro alla Scala,Milan I/21 Armida dramma 3 acts Giovanni Schmidt, after Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso 11 November 1817 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/22 Adelaide di Borgogna,ossia Ottone, re d'Italia dramma 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt 27 December 1817 Teatro Argentina,Rome I/23 Mosè in Egitto azione tragico-sacra 3 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after L'Osiride (1760) by Francesco Ringhieri 5 March 1818 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/24 Adina,ossia Il califfo di Bagdad(composed 1818) farsa 1 act Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini 22 June 1826 Teatro Nacional de São Carlos,Lisbon I/25 Ricciardo e Zoraide dramma 2 acts Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa, after the poem Ricciardetto by Niccolò Forteguerri 3 December 1818 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/26 Ermione azione tragica 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after Andromaque (1667) by Jean Racine 27 March 1819 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/27 Eduardo e Cristina(sometimes titled Edoardo e Cristina) dramma 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt 24 April 1819 Teatro San Benedetto,Venice I/28 La donna del lago melodramma 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott 24 October 1819 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples I/29 Bianca e Falliero,ossia Il consiglio dei tre melodramma 2 acts Felice Romani, after Blanche et Montcassin by Antoine-Vincent Arnault 26 December 1819 Teatro alla Scala,Milan I/30 Maometto II(revised December 1822) dramma 2 acts Cesare della Valle, possibly after Felice Romani;revised by Gaetano Rossi 3 December 1820; 26 December 1822 Teatro di San Carlo,Naples Venice, Teatro La Fenice I/31 Matilde di Shabran,ossia Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro opera semiseria 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti, after François-Benoît Hoffman's libretto Euphrosine, ou Le tyran corrigé (1790) for Étienne Méhul and Jacques-Marie Boutet de Monvel (1798), derived from Voltaire 24 February 1821 Teatro Apollo,Rome I/32 Zelmira dramma 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after Zelmire (1762) by Dormont de Belloy 16 February 1822 Teatro di San Carlo, Naples I/33 Semiramide melodramma tragico 2 acts Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire 3 February 1823 Teatro La Fenice,Venice I/34 Ugo, re d'Italia(composed 1823–1824, unfinished) dramma? 3? acts Gaetano Rossi? not performed intended for London – Il viaggio a Reims,ossia L'albergo del Giglio d'Oro dramma giocoso 3 acts Luigi Balocchi, after Corinne ou l'Italie by Madame de Staël 19 June 1825 Théâtre Italien,Paris I/35 Le siège de Corinthe(revision of Maometto secondo) tragédie lyrique 3 acts Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, after the libretto for Maometto II 9 October 1826 Salle Le Peletier,Paris Opéra I/36 Moïse et Pharaon,ou Le passage de la mer rouge(revision of Mosè in Egitto) opéra 4 acts Luigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after the libretto for Mosè in Egitto 26 March 1827 Salle Le Peletier,Paris Opéra I/37 Le comte Ory opéra bouffe 2 acts Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson 20 August 1828 Salle Le Peletier,Paris Opéra I/38 Guillaume Tell opéra 4 acts Victor-Joseph-Ėtienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis and Armand Marrast, after Friedrich Schiller 3 August 1829 Salle Le Peletier,Paris Opéra I/39

Pasticci with Rossini's permission TitleGenreActs Libretto Notes Premiere date Venue Ivanhoépastiche3 actsEmile Deschamps and Gustave de Wailly, after Walter Scott's Ivanhoe(consists entirely of music taken from earlier Rossini operas by Antonio Pacini) 15 September 1826Odéon, Paris pastiche3 actsJean-Nicolas van Nieuwenhuysen and Alphonse Royer, after Walter Scott's History of Scotland(adapted by Louis Niedermeyer from La donna del lago, Zelmira, Bianca e Falliero, Torvaldo e Dorliska and Armida) 30 December 1846Salle Le Peletier, Paris(Paris Opéra)

Other pasticci utilising Rossini's music TitleGenreActs Libretto Notes Premiere date Venue La fausse Agnès,ou Le poète campagnardpastiche3 actsCastil-Blaze after Destouches(consists of music by Rossini and other composers, including Domenico Cimarosa and Giacomo Meyerbeer) Before June 1826Théâtre de Madame, Paris Le Neveu de Monseigneurpastiche2 actsJean-François Bayard, Thomas Sauvage and Romieu(consists of music adapted by Luc Guėnėe from operas by Rossini and other composers, including Giovanni Pacini, Valentino Fioravanti and Francesco Morlacchi) 7 August 1826Odéon, Paris Le testament pastiche 2 acts Joseph-Henri de Saur and Léonce de Saint-Géniès (adapted by Jean Frédéric-Auguste Lemierre de Corvey after operas by Rossini) 22 January 1827 Odéon, Paris M. de Pourceaugnac pastiche 3 acts Possibly Castil-Blaze after Molière (adapted from operas by Rossini and Carl Maria von Weber) 24 February 1827 Odéon, Paris Cinderella or The Fairy and the Little Glass Slipperpastiche2 acts Michael Rophino Lacy, after Jacopo Ferretti's libretto for La Cenerentola (adapted from La Cenerentola, Guillaume Tell, Maometto secondo and Armida) 13 April 1830Covent Garden, London L'ape musicale pasticcio 1 act Lorenzo Da Ponte (adapted from operas by Rossini, Cimarosa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli and Antonio Salieri) 20 April 1830 Park Theatre, New York Andremo a Parigi?pastiche2 acts Luigi Balocchi and Jean-Henri Dupin (adapted by Jean-Henri Dupin from Il viaggio a Reims) 26 October 1848Théâtre-Italien, Paris Un curioso accidentepastiche2 actsArcangelo Berettoni, after Carlo Goldoni (adapted by Torribio Calzado from Aureliano in Palmira, La cambiale di matrimonio, La pietra del paragone and L'occasione fa il ladro) 27 November 1859Théâtre-Italien, Paris

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"The thirty-nine operas of Gioachino Rossini" by Robert J. Farr, 16 November 2005, musicweb-international.com A Pega Ladra: drama em 2 actos, 1853 publication, Portuguese, digitized by BYU on archive.org