Zelmira

Dramma per musica in Two Acts by Andrea Leone Tottola

Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Distributed for Fondazione Rossini

Edited by Helen Greenwald and Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell

1,497 pages | Four-volume-set: Score (2 vols. cloth): lxii +114 p.; Stage banda (I vol. cloth) | 9-1/2 x 12-5/8

The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas

Cloth $300.00 ISBN: 9788889947005 Published October 2006 For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

Gioachino Rossini composed Zelmira in 1822 not only for Naples’s Teatro San Carlo, but also for a Viennese tour. He then took the work to London and Paris. Mindful of his international audience, Rossini experimented in Zelmira. Avoiding an overture, the opera plunges directly into the drama; intense chromaticism and emphasis on minor keys create a dark tone. The ensembles especially exhibit a refined, classical ideal of beauty.

This edition is the first publication of Zelmira in full score. It includes the Vienna aria “Ciel pietoso,” immediately considered integral to the opera, the Paris ending, and changes for Vienna and London. An additional volume provides authentic stage band music needed for three pieces.