Gioachino Rossini (1792 –1868) and librettist Gaetano Rossi (1774 –1855)

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• Based on Voltaire's play Tancrède (1759)

• melodramma eroico (opera seria/ heroic opera)

•  Premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on Feb 6, 1813

• Revised ending, reworked by poet Luigi Lechi (1786- 1867), for Ferrara, March, 1813  

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