Gioachino Rossini, “La Gazza Ladra”, Overture, Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna, 1991, New Year’s Concert
La Gazza Ladra (first performance: Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 31 may 1817), Melodramma by Gioachino Rossini (Pesaro, 1792; Paris, 1868), Libretto by Giovanni Gherardini (Milano, 1778; Milano, 1861).
Subject from La Pie voleuse ou La Servante de Palaiseau (1815), Drama by Théodore Badouin d’Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.
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