Schedule for G. Rossini "La Donna del Lago" (opera in a concert performance) 2022

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra the Musica Viva
Ensemble: Intrada Vocal Ensemble

La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola based on the French translation of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic highlands.
It was the first of the Italian operas to be based on Scott's romantic works, and marked the beginning of romanticism in Rossini's work.

Written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, this was the seventh of nine operas which Rossini wrote for that house between 1815 and 1822. Although the première on 24 September 1819 was not a success, there followed many performances throughout major European venues until about 1860, after which the opera disappeared until 1958.