Lauro Rossi

Lauro Rossi ( born February 19, 1812 in Macerata, † May 5, 1885 in Cremona ) was an Italian composer.

Rossi studied in Naples in Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Girolamo Crescentini and Giovanni Furno. At the Teatro La Fenice his first operas were performed here. In 1832 he became conductor of the Teatro Valle in Rome. From 1835 to 1843 he was with an opera troupe in Mexico City, Havana and New Orleans as a guest. Since 1850 he was the director of the Conservatory in Milan, since 1871 the conservatory in Naples. Lauro Rossi was one of the thirteen composers Giuseppe Verdi summoned for the Requiem Messa per Rossini. Rossi composed for the Agnus Dei.

He composed 29 operas, the oratorio Saul, elegies, cantatas, a mass, chamber music, and songs. The opera house of his native city of Macerata is named after him.

Operas

• Le contesse villane (1829 )
• Costanza e Oringaldo (1830, together with P. Raimondi )
• La sposa al lotto (1831 )
• La casa in vendita, ovvero II casino di campagna (1831 )
• La di matrimonio Scommessa (1831 )
• Baldovino, tiranno di Spoleto ( 1832)
• II maestro di scuola (1832 )
• II disertore svizzero, ovvero La nostalgia ( 1832)
• Le Fucine di Bergen ( 1833)
• La casa disabitata, ovvero Don Eustachio di campagna (1834 )
• Amelia, ovvero Otto anni di costanza (1834 )
• Leocadia (1835 )
• Giovanna Shore (1836 )
• II borgomastro di Schiedam (1844 )
• Dottore Bobolo, ovvero La fiera (1845 )
• Cellini a Parigi (1845 )
• Azema di Granata, ovvero Gli Abencerragi ed i Zegrini (1846, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti )
• La figlia di Figaro (1846 )
• Blanca Contarini (1847 )
• Il domino nero (1849; revival in Italy and available on CD )
• Le Sabine (1852 )
• L' alchimista (1853 )
• La sirena (1855 )
• Lo Zingaro rival (1867 )
• Il maestro e la cantante (1867 )
• Gli artisti alla fiera (1868 )
• La contessa di Mons (1874 )
• Cleopatra (1876; reissue 2008)
• Biorn (1877 )