Torvaldo e Dorliska

Torvaldo e Dorliska
Opera semiseria by Gioachino Rossini
Rossini c. 1815
LibrettistCesare Sterbini
LanguageItalian
Based onLes Amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
Premiere
26 December 1815 (1815-12-26)
Teatro Valle, Rome

Torvaldo e Dorliska is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the novel/memoir Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (1787–1790) by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).

Torvaldo e Dorliska is a rescue opera with an eventual happy ending. The inclusion of buffo roles is the reason for its designation as a 'semiserio' work, similar to Rossini's La gazza ladra.

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