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| La cambiale di matrimonio | |
|---|---|
| Farsa by Gioachino Rossini | |
 Rossini c. 1815 | |
| Librettist | Gaetano Rossi |
| Language | Italian |
| Premiere | 3 November 1810 Teatro San Moisè, Venice |
La cambiale di matrimonio ([la kamˈbjale di matriˈmɔnjo]; English: The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract) is a one-act operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici (1791) and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio. The opera debuted on 3 November 1810 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice.[1] It had a run of thirteen performances at Teatro San Moisè.[2]
Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old, La cambiale di matrimonio was Rossini's first professional opera. The overture, written when he was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, is an important part of the modern concert repertoire.[1] As was to become typical of his later career, the duet "Dunque io son" was later reused, to greater effect, in act 1 of The Barber of Seville.[3]
- ^ a b Osborne, Richard in Grove
- ^ "Notes by Martina Grempler for Naxos CD 8.660302". Archived from the original on 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ^ Warrack and West