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''La gazzetta, ossia Il matrimonio per concorso'' (''The Newspaper, or The Marriage Contest)'' is an opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play ''Il matrimonio per concorso'' of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera "was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."〔( "''La Gazzetta'': Italian Romanic Comedy", New England Conservatory ) 29 January 2013 on necmusic.edu Retrieved 5 April 2013〕 ==Composition history== Following the success of his ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' in Rome, the composer arrived in Naples in February 1816 to discover that fire had destroyed the Teatro San Carlo, that he was obliged to compose a cantata to celebrate a royal wedding, plus supervise a production of his ''Tancredi''. And the music for ''La gazzetta'' was due for August performances.〔 It would be Rossini's second opera written for Naples and the only comedy he wrote there.〔 As was his wont, Rossini borrowed music from some of his previous works, These included ''Il Turco in Italia'' (1814), ''La pietra del paragone'' (1812), and also from ''Torvaldo e Dorliska'' (1815). None of these pieces would have heard by Naples' audiences of the time.〔Holden, pp. 778–779〕〔 However, musicologist Philip Gossett stresses that: :We need to be careful about assuming a mechanical use of self-borrowing by the composer.() Like Handel before him, Rossini was not averse to borrowing from himself, when he felt a piece would not be known widely or when he felt that he could introduce new material into it. But Rossini was always a composer, and he would not easily take a passage and employ it without rethinking its function in a new musical and dramatic context.〔 While the overture was written specifically for this opera, it is probably the best known piece from the work, because, along with other music from ''La gazzetta'', it was incorporated into ''La Cenerentola''.〔Osborne, Richard (1992), p. 368〕 These borrowings may have speeded up the process of composition, but Charles Osborne notes that "on this occasion, Rossini failed to complete the opera with his usual alacrity"〔 and speculates that it may have been caused by his attraction to the soprano Isabella Colbran. It opened a month later than originally scheduled. 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「La gazzetta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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