Le siège de Corinthe
| Le siège de Corinthe | |
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| Opera by Gioachino Rossini | |
The burning of Corinth: set design for the finale of the 1826 premiere | |
| Translation | The Siege of Corinth |
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| Language | French |
| Based on | Third Siege of Missolonghi |
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L'assedio di Corinto (English: The Siege of Corinth; in its original French version Le siège de Corinthe), is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini).
The opera was originally set to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, and was based on the reworking of some of the music from Rossini's 1820 opera for Naples, Maometto II, the Italian libretto of which was written by Cesare della Valle.
Le siège de Corinthe was Rossini's first opera written in French, and was first given at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 9 October 1826. It then became popular across Europe in its 1828 Italian translation, L’assedio di Corinto, by Calisto Bassi.