Edipo a Colono (Rossini)

For the 1786 opera by Sacchini based on Sophocles' play, see Œdipe à Colone.

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.

External links

• List of numbers at Musicbrainz
• Edipo a Colono: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project