La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone) is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an original Italian libretto by Luigi...

In mid-1812 he received a commission from La Scala, Milan, where his two-act comedy La pietra del paragone ran for fifty-three performances, a considerable...

1800: Idante, ovvero I sacrifici d'Ecate by Marcos Portugal 1812: La pietra del paragone by Gioachino Rossini 1813: Aureliano in Palmira by Gioachino Rossini...

of his previous works, These included Il Turco in Italia (1814), La pietra del paragone (1812), and also from Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815). None of these...

previous opera Il signor Bruschino. The overture, borrowed from La pietra del paragone, is a popular example of Rossini's characteristic style and is regularly...

Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare (1812) La scala di seta (1812) La pietra del paragone (1812) L'occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia (1812)...

V'è la risorsa, poi, del mestiere colla donnetta ... col cavaliere ... Tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono, donne, ragazzi, vecchi, fanciulle: Qua la parrucca...

worked with stage directors, including Pierrick Sorin (for Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone in 2007 and 2014), Oleg Kulik (for Monteverdi's Vespers for the...

was seen at La Scala in two operas of Rossini, L'assedio di Corinto (with Beverly Sills and Marilyn Horne, 1969) and La pietra del paragone (at the Piccola...

crudele (1821) La pastorella (1821) Canzonetta spagnuola (1821) Infelice ch'io son (1821) Addio ai viennesi (1822) Dall'oriente l'astro del giorno (1824)...