La gazza ladra La gazza ladra La gazza ladra (, The Thieving Magpie) is a "melodramma" or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on "La pie voleuse" by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The composer Giaochino Rossini wrote quickly, and "La gazza ladra" was no exception. According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of which the composer threw out the sheets of music to the copyists who then wrote the orchestral parts, to
The Taming of the Shrew late to save him. Starring Aureliano Pertile and Mercedes Llopart, it was first performed at La Scala in Milan. Rudolf Karel's "The Taming of the Shrew" is an unfinished opera upon which he worked between 1942 and 1944. Philip Greeley Clapp's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1948) was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera. Vittorio Giannini's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1953) is an opera buffa, with libretto by Giannini and Dorothy Fee. It was first performed at the Cincinnati Music Hall, starring Dorothy Short and Robert Kircher. Vissarion Shebalin's "Ukroshchenye stroptivoy" (1957), with libretto by Abram Akimovich Gozenpud, was