La cambiale di matrimonio
Music by Gioachino Rossini · libretto by Gaetano Rossi · premiered 1810 · at Teatro San Moisè
La cambiale di matrimonio ([la kamˈbjale di matriˈmɔnjo]; English: The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract although The Promissory of Marriage is a more precise translation) is a one-act operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici (1791) and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio. The opera debuted on 3 November 1810 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice. It had a run of thirteen performances at Teatro San Moisè. Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old, La cambiale di matrimonio was Rossini's first professionally performed opera (Demetrio e Polibio, composed in 1809, was his first composed although it was not performed until 1812). The overture, written when he was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, is an important part of the modern concert repertoire. As was to become typical of his later career, the duet "Dunque io son" was later reused, to greater effect, in act 1 of The Barber of Seville.
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About the Composer
Gioachino Rossini is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Gioachino Rossini
- Armida
- L'equivoco stravagante
- Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1785)
- Il turco in Italia (1788)
- Aureliano in Palmira (1789)
- Bianca e Falliero (1798)
- Demetrio e Polibio (1806)
- Il viaggio a Reims (1807)