Calisto Bassi (beginning of the 19th century, in Cremona â c. 1860, in Abbiategrasso) was an Italian opera librettist.
Bassi wrote many original librettos and was also active as a translator into Italian of several librettos from other languages. For many years, he was also the stage director at La Scala in Milan.
Original librettos
Translations
This is a partial list of librettos translated into Italian by Bassi. Location and date refer to the first performance of the translated version.
- L'assedio di Corinto (from Le siège de Corinthe), music by Gioachino Rossini (Parma, Teatro Ducale, 31 January 1828)
- Guglielmo Tell (from Guillaume Tell), music by Gioachino Rossini (Lucca, Teatro del Giglio, 17 September 1831)
- La muta di Portici (from La muette de Portici), music by Daniel Auber (Rome, Teatro Valle, Spring 1835)
- Roberto il Diavolo (from Robert le diable), music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Lisbon, 2 September 1838)
- Il Postiglione di Longjumeau (from Le postillon de Lonjumeau for Adolphe Adam)
- music by Pietro Antonio Coppola (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 6 November 1838)
- music by A. A. Speranza (Turin, Teatro Sutera, Spring 1845)
- La figlia del reggimento (from La fille du régiment), music by Gaetano Donizetti (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 30 October 1840)
- La Favorita (from La favorite), music by Gaetano Donizetti (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 6 August 1843)
- I Martiri (from Les martyrs, adaptation of Poliuto), music by Gaetano Donizetti (Lisbon, 15 February 1843)
- Roberto Bruce (from Robert Bruce), music by Gioachino Rossini (1847)
- L'anima in pena (from L'âme en peine), music by Friedrich von Flotow (1847)
- Mosè (from Moïse et Pharaon), music by Gioachino Rossini (Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1849)
- Gerusalemme (from Jérusalem), music by Giuseppe Verdi (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 December 1850)
- I Guelfi ed i Ghibellini (from Les Huguenots) (Trieste, Teatro Grande, Carnival 1851)
- Il Profeta (from Le prophète), music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Florence, Teatro della Pergola, 26 December 1852)
- Alessandro Stradella, music by Friedrich von Flotow (Genua, Teatro Carlo Felice, Autumn 1863)
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