Zelmira (Rossini, Gioacchino)

		Movements/Sections 2 acts Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; Melodramas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; For piano (arr); For 1 player; Scores featuring the piano

Sheet Music

• Full Scores (2)
• Vocal Scores (1)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (2)

Full Scores

 Act I
*#106431 - 85.49MB, 561 pp. -  5.5/10 2 4 6 8 10 (2) - V/V/V - 709x⇩

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Caprotti (2011/6/22)

 Act II
*#106432 - 42.37MB, 287 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 339x⇩

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Caprotti (2011/6/22)

Publisher Info.:

Manuscript, n.d.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

omits recitatives

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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
*#107864 - 89.64MB, 267 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 1558x⇩

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Caprotti (2011/7/3)

Editor:

A. Girowetz

Publisher Info.:

Vienna: Artaria, n.d.(ca.1822). Plate 2679.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Biblioteca Fondazione Rossini Pesaro. Omits recitativo secco; includes German translation

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Ciel pietoso

For Piano solo

 Complete score
*#260610 - 1.80MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 61x⇩

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JP3 (2012/11/30)

Publisher Info.:

Firenze: Giuseppe Lorenzi, n.d. (ca. 1830). Plate 762.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

This item forms part of the
Ricasoli Collection at the University of Louisville Music Library.

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Perché mi guardi e piangi

For Piano solo

 Complete score
*#274751 - 3.19MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 25x⇩

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JP3 (2013/3/25)

Publisher Info.:

Publisher not identified. (Likely G. Lorenzei, ca. 1823.)

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

This item forms part of the
Ricasoli Collection at the University of Louisville Music Library.

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General Information

Work Title	Zelmira
Alternative Title	Melodramma

Composer	Rossini, Gioacchino
Movements/Sections	2 acts
First Performance	1822-02-16, Naples
Librettist	Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy
Language	Italian
Piece Style	Classical
Instrumentation	solo voices, choir, orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in B♭ and A), 2 bassoons, 4 horns (in F and D), 2 trumpets (in A), 2 trombones, strings); there are probably other transpositions for clarinets, horns, and trumpets; the changes are not always clearly marked.

Misc. Comments

• While many sources refer to this as an opera, the subtitle is "Melodramma".
• Roles:

Polidoro, King of Lesbos (bass)

Zelmira, his daughter (soprano)

Emma, her confidant (contralto)

Ilo, Prince of Troy and husband of Zelmira (tenor)

Antenore, a usurper from Mytilene (tenor)

Leucippo, his confidant, a general (bass-baritone)

Eacide, a follower of Prince Ilo (tenor)

High priest of Jupiter (bass)

Priests, populace, Mytilene army, Ilo's followers, Zelmira's young son (silent)

Operas by Gioacchino Rossini
La cambiale di matrimonio (1810) L'equivoco stravagante (1811) Demetrio e Polibio (1812) L'inganno felice (1812) Ciro in Babilonia (1812) La scala di seta (1812) La pietra del paragone (1812) L'occasione fa il ladro (1812) Il signor Bruschino (1813) Tancredi (1813) L'italiana in Algeri (1813) Aureliano in Palmira (1813) Il turco in Italia (1814)	Sigismondo (1814) Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815) Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) La gazzetta (1816) Otello (1816) La cenerentola (1817) La gazza ladra (1817) Armida (1817) Adelaide di Borgogna (1817) Mosè in Egitto (1818) Adina (1826) Ricciardo e Zoraide (1818)	Ermione (1819) Eduardo e Cristina (1819) La donna del lago (1819) Bianca e Falliero (1819) Maometto secondo (1820) Matilde di Shabran (1821) Zelmira (1822) Semiramide (1823) Il viaggio a Reims (1825) Le siège de Corinthe (1826) Le comte Ory (1828) Guillaume Tell (1829)