Edipo a Colono (Rossini)
# Edipo a Colono (Rossini)

Edipo a Colono is a piece of incidental music. Gioachino Rossini composed it in 1817 for bass voice, men's chorus and orchestra. The Italian libretto by Giambattista Giusti [de; it] is based on the eponymous play by Sophocles.

Three excerpts were furnished with French lyrics and published in 1844: the choruses La Foi and l'Esperance, and the aria Ame innocent.

After a long absence, the 'Rossini renaissance' brought about a staged revival at the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro in 1982, and again in 1995, using the critical edition published by the Fondazione Rossini/Casa Ricordi edited by Lorenzo Tozzi and Piero Weiss.

