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Semiramide
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| The composition of Semiramide took approximately four months, which is an unusually Iong span for Rossini. The premiere took place on the 3rd of February of 1823. The opera's libretto is based on Voltaire's drama Sémiramis, written by the French phiIosopher and scholar in 1748. For some respects a conclusive work, Semiramide contains, like aIl masterpieces, traditionaI eIements alongside innovative ones. Rossini accentuated the roIe of the orchestra, compared to his previous serious operas: the Sinfonia, the longest and most eIaborate Rossini ever wrote, immediately suggests Rossini endeavoured to give the instrumentaI part a more important role yet than usual. At the same time, the bel canto dimension is probabIy more developed than in any other previous Rossinian serious opera. Indeed, even recently, the difficuIty of finding interpreters up to tackling Rossini's vocaI writing, often prohibitively difficult, has contributed to the few and far between performances of this masterpiece. The roIe of Semiramide caIIs for a singer with qualities both of dramatic and coloratura soprano; bel canto agiIity is, in any case, required of all the main interpreters of this opera. This is a "huge" opera from aIl points of view. It summarizes and compIetes Rossini's serious arc, and is paradigmatic of aII that wouId foIIow. |
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