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''Mosè in Egitto'' (''Moses in Egypt)'' () is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a 1760 play by Francesco Ringhieri, ''L'Osiride''.〔Ringhieri 1760〕 It premièred on 5 March 1818 at the recently reconstructed Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy. In 1827 Rossini revised the work with a new title: ''Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge'' (''Moses and Pharaoh, or The Crossing of the Red Sea'') (). It was set to a four-act libretto written in French by Luigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and the première was given by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier on 26 March the same year. Riccardo Muti and many scholars consider ''Moïse et Pharaon'', along with ''Guillaume Tell'', to be among Rossini's greatest achievements: :I prefer it because Rossini himself preferred it. Don't get me wrong. ''Mosè in Egitto'' is a wonderful opera, but it remains very much a mere sketch for ''Moïse et Pharaon''. And it's not just me who says that, but the great Rossini himself.〔("Riccardo Muti unearths Rossini rarity in Salzburg" ), 13 August 2009, on expatica.com〕 ==Composition history== ''Mosè in Egitto'', 1818'' The opera was loosely based on the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites, led by Moses, rendered agreeable to the opera stage by introducing a love theme, in which the Pharaoh's son Amenophis plans to prevent their departure, since he loves the Israelite Anaïs. The 1818 opera opens as the plague of darkness is dispelled by Moses' prayer, and it ends with the spectacle of the parting of the Red Sea and the drowning of Pharaoh's host, which "elicited howls of derision"〔Gossett & Brauner 2001, p. 783〕 at the clumsy machinery of its staging at the premiere, though the opera surmounted its technical failings and was a hit. Billed in 1818 as an ''azione tragico-sacra'', the sacred drama with some features of the oratorio circumvented proscriptions of secular dramatic performances during Lent. Rossini slightly revised the opera in 1819, when he introduced Moses' prayer-aria "Dal tuo stellato soglio", which became one of the most popular opera pieces of the day and which inspired a set of variations for violin and piano by Niccolò Paganini. Both survive in concert performance. ''Moïse et Pharaon'', 1827'' The greatly enlarged work set to a French libretto was composed with so much additional music, including a substantial ballet, as to warrant a new title, ''Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge'' (''Moses and Pharaoh, or The Crossing of the Red Sea'') (), and was seen to be a separate and new opera alongside its Naples progenitor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mosè in Egitto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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