Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini and Richard Wagner were some of the first composers to use the tam-tam in their works ; Rossini in the final of act 3 of Armida ( 1817 ), Bellini in Norma ( 1831 ) and Wagner in Rienzi ( 1842 ).

His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

He had also sent back some of his own works, including a portrait ( 1623 ) of himself with Endymion Porter, one of Charles's agents, a mythology ( Rinaldo and Armida, 1629, now in the Baltimore Museum of Art ), and a religious work for the Queen.

She created the leading female role in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra ( 1815 ), Otello ( 1816 ), Armida ( 1817 ), Mosè in Egitto ( 1818 ), Maometto II ( 1820 ), and five other Rossini operas up to and including his final contribution to the genre, Semiramide, which was also written with Colbran in the major role.

These were Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra ( 1815 ), La gazzetta, Otello, ossia il Moro di Venezia ( 1816 ), Armida ( 1817 ), Mosè in Egitto, Ricciardo e Zoraide ( 1818 ), Ermione, Bianca e Falliero, Eduardo e Cristina, La donna del lago ( 1819 ), Maometto II ( 1820 ), and Zelmira ( 1822 ).

Though her voice soon began to show signs of strain, Colbran continued to have a fertile career, creating the roles of Armida ( Armida ), Elcia ( Mosè in Egitto ), Zoraide ( Ricciardo e Zoraide ), Ermione ( Ermione ), Elena ( La donna del lago ), Anna ( Maometto II ), and Zelmira ( Zelmira ), all written by Rossini for Naples.

* Armida al campo d ' Egitto by Antonio Vivaldi ( Venice, 1718 )

* Armida al campo d ' Egitto ( 1718 ) by Vivaldi

Act 3 scene 2 of Robert ( the ' Ballet of the Nuns ') at the Paris Opéra ( Salle Le Peletier ), 1832 The name Giacomo Meyerbeer first became known internationally with his opera Il crociato in Egitto — premiered in Venice in 1824 and produced in London and Paris in 1825 ; incidentally it was the last opera ever written to feature a castrato, and to require keyboard accompaniment for recitatives.

Giulio Cesare in Egitto ( Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17 ), commonly known simply as Giulio Cesare, is an Italian opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel in 1724.

In 1961 he published the mystery Il giorno della civetta ( The Day of the Owl ), one of his most famous novels, and in 1963, the historical novel Il consiglio d ' Egitto ( The Council of Egypt ), set in 18th-century Palermo.

Berenice ( HWV 38 ) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto, written in Italy in 1709 and originally entitled Berenice, regina d ' Egitto ( Berenice, Queen of Egypt ), by Antonio Salvi.

The absence of a similar precaution in construction of his Mosè in Egitto led to disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, when the defects in stage contrivance always raised a laugh, so that the composer was at length compelled to introduce the chorus " Dal tuo stellato soglio " to divert attention from the dividing waves.

* Gioacchino Rossini – Mosè in Egitto

John Ebers, a bookseller, took over the management of the theatre in 1821, and seven more London premieres of Rossini operas ( La gazza ladra, Il turco in Italia, Mosè in Egitto, Otello, La donna del lago, Matilde di Shabran and Ricciardo e Zoraide ) took place there in the following three years.

Mosè in Egitto (; ) is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L ' Osiride, of 1760.

She also participated in the recording of operatic works rarely heard in this era, including: Rossini's Mosè in Egitto, Wagner's Die Feen, Tomaso Albinoni's Il nascimento dell ' Aurora, Bizet's La jolie fille de Perth, Adolphe Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Fromental Halévy's La Juive, and Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici.