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4 unusual facts about Giovanni Schmidt


Adelaide di Borgogna

Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (Adelaide of Burgundy, or Otto, King of Italy) is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini (with contributions by Michele Carafa) to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt.

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, (Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play Il paggio di Leicester (Leicester's Page) by Carlo Federici, which itself "was derived from a novel The Recess (1785) by Sophia Lee."

Giovanni Schmidt

He and Andrea Leone Tottola were the two librettists who dominated theatrical life in Naples in the first quarter of the 19th century.

He also appeared as a character in a scene from the 1991 film Rossini! Rossini! directed by Mario Monicelli.



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