| Matilde di Shabran | |
|---|---|
| Dramma giocoso by Gioachino Rossini | |
 Rossini in 1820 | |
| Librettist | Jacopo Ferretti |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Libretto for Méhul's Euphrosine |
| Premiere | 24 February 1821 Teatro Apollo, Rome |
Matilde di Shabran (full title: Matilde di Shabran, o sia Bellezza e Cuor di ferro; English: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Ironheart) is a melodramma giocoso (opera semiseria) in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine (1790, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde. The opera was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Apollo, 24 February 1821 [1] conducted by the violinist Niccolo Paganini. The premiere was followed by a street brawl "between Rossini's admirers and his detractors."[2]
- ^ Tom Kaufman 2007, , "Rossini: Matilde di Shabran", Opera Today, 21 March 2007. (On operatoday.com)
- ^ Osborne, Charles 1994, p. 106