La Gazzetta (The Newspaper)
by
Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868). Dramma in two acts. 1816.
Libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, after Il matrimonio per concorso (Marriage by Competition) by Carlo Goldoni.
First performance at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, on 26th September 1816.
The opera explores the comic possibilities of two fathers and their daughters, the first advertising in a newspaper for a husband for his daughter, who is already secretly in love with the owner of the hotel where they are staying.
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868).
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