Torvaldo e Dorliska | |
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Opera semiseria by Gioachino Rossini | |
Librettist | Cesare Sterbini |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai |
Premiere | 26 December 1815 Teatro Valle, Rome |
Torvaldo e Dorliska is an operatic dramma semiserio in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the novel/memoir Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (1787–1790) by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).
Torvaldo e Dorliska is a rescue opera with an eventual happy ending. The inclusion of buffo roles is the reason for its designation as a 'semiserio' work, similar to Rossini's La gazza ladra.