Editing Semiramide (section)

==Performance history==
===19th century===

Following its premiere, the opera was given twenty-eight times<ref name="Osborne-pp113-14">{{harvnb|Osborne|1994|pp=113–114}}</ref> for the rest of the season in Venice (and, at some point, for four nights in a row){{sfn|Migliavacca|1998|p=84}} and it went on to presentations throughout Italy and Europe, including Paris in 1825, Milan in 1829 and 1831, and Vienna in 1830. It reached London on 15 July 1824, was given its US premiere at the St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans on 1 May 1837, but it took until 3 January 1845, before it was performed in New York.<ref name="Osborne-pp113-14" />

Other prima donnas emerged in the major roles by about 1825, since Colbran's vocal powers had greatly diminished by the time of the Venice premiere performances and she "was in no state to ever sing the role again".<ref name="Mpage92">{{harvnb|Migliavacca|1998|p=92}}</ref> For 25 years after 1830, [[Giulia Grisi]] triumphed in the role notably in [[St Petersburg]] in 1849 and New York in 1854.

By the late 1800s, the opera had virtually disappeared from the repertoire. However, it was chosen in 1880 to inaugurate the Teatro Costanzi, new venue of the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma|Rome Opera]] company, and appeared as part of the Cincinnati Opera Festival 1882 which was attended by [[Oscar Wilde]] and which featured the famous diva [[Adelina Patti]] who chose the aria "Bel raggio lusinghiero" for her farewell performance.<ref>[https://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/features/patti-in-cincinnati.html "Patti in Cincinnati"], oscarwildeinamerica.org</ref> The [[Metropolitan Opera]] revived ''Semiramide'' in 1892, 1894 (with [[Nellie Melba]]), and 1895.

===20th century and beyond===
It took until 1932 until the opera was again revived (in a German translation) in [[Rostock]], and it then reappeared under [[Tullio Serafin]] at the 1940 [[Maggio Musicale Fiorentino]].

Presentations at [[La Scala]] in Milan in December 1962 with [[Joan Sutherland]] and [[Giulietta Simionato]] required the re-assembly of the entire score from the Rossini autograph, since no other texts were known to exist.<ref name="Gossett">{{harvnb|Gossett|2006|p=178}}</ref>

Musicologist [[Philip Gossett]] noted that between 1962 and 1990 "some seventy opera houses have included the work in one or more seasons".<ref name="Gossett"/> A major revival at the [[Aix-en-Provence Festival]] in 1980 was directed by [[Pier Luigi Pizzi]] and featured [[Montserrat Caballé]] in the title role with [[Marilyn Horne]] as Arsace.<ref>{{cite news|author = Jacques Lonchampt|author-link = Jacques Lonchampt|title="Semiramis" a Aix en Provence|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1980/07/18/semiramis-a-aix-en-provence-l-incroyable-duo-horne-caballe_3069507_1819218.html|work=[[Le Monde]]|date = 18 July 1980|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> The same staging was then billed in sequence by the [[Teatro Carlo Felice]] in Genoa<ref>Angelo Foletto, "È madre e regina: ama, uccide, ma soprattutto canta", ''la Repubblica'', 7 March 1981. The opera was performed in the period venue of the Teatro Carlo Felice, the Cinema Teatro Margherita.</ref> and by the [[Teatro Regio (Turin)|Teatro Regio]] in Turin<ref>Massimo Mila, "Una bella «Semiramide» rilancia il Regio" (surtitles: "Bravissime la Valentini e la Ricciarelli, splendida la scena di Pizzi"), ''La Stampa'', 26 April 1981.</ref> which had co-produced it, starring respectively [[Lella Cuberli]]/Martine Dupuy and [[Katia Ricciarelli]]/[[Lucia Valentini Terrani]]. It was not until the Met's 1990 revival after almost 100 years that a production based on a new critical edition was mounted. It alternated Lella Cuberli and [[June Anderson]] in the title role with Marilyn Horne again as Arsace.<ref>{{harvnb|Gossett|2006|pp=169–199}}: He recounts the entire history of the creation of the critical edition and how it was used in the 1990 production.</ref> Among other performances, the work was given by the [[Rossini in Wildbad]] Festival in 2012, which was recorded with [[Alex Penda]] in the title role.<ref>[http://operabase.com/oplist.cgi?id=none&lang=en&is=Semiramide&by=&loc=&stype=abs&sd=1&sm=1&sy=2012&etype=abs&ed=&em=&ey= Performances listed on operabase.com since 1 January 2012]</ref> In November 2017, the Royal Opera House, London, mounted its first production of the opera since the 1890s, with [[Joyce DiDonato]] in the title role.<ref>[http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/semiramide-by-david-alden New production of Semiramide at Covent Garden, November 2017]</ref>