Note 70 — Chapter V · OPERATIC DEVELOPMENT IN ITALY AND FRANCE
Reading edition
Gaetano Rossi (1780-1855), an Italian librettist, quite as prolific as Scribe and as popular as a text-writer among his own countrymen as the latter was in Paris, wrote the book of Semiramide. Among his texts were: Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix and Maria Padilla; Guecco’s La prova d’un opera seria; Mercadante’s Il Giuramento; Rossini’s Tancredi; and Meyerbeer’s Crociato in Egitto.