Edipo a Colono is a piece of incidental music. Gioachino Rossini composed it in 1817 for bass voice, men's chorus and orchestra. The Italian libretto by Giambattista Giusti [de; it] is based on the eponymous play by Sophocles.[1]

Three excerpts were furnished with French lyrics and published in 1844: the choruses La Foi and l'Esperance, and the aria Ame innocent.[2]

After a long absence, the 'Rossini renaissance' brought about a staged revival at the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro in 1982, and again in 1995, using the critical edition published by the Fondazione Rossini/Casa Ricordi edited by Lorenzo Tozzi and Piero Weiss.[3]

References

  1. ^ Albright, Daniel (2009). Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song. University of Rochester Press. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9781580463249.
  2. ^ As described in a 1923 action catalogue, pasted into the cover of the scanned autograph hosted on IMSLP.
  3. ^ Servadio, Gaia (2003). Rossini. Constable. p. 221. ISBN 9781841194783.

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