These are some of the operas by Rossini:
- La Scala di Seta (9 May 1812) libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa
- Tancredi (6 Feb 1813) libretto by Gaetano Rossi
- L'Italiana in Algeri #55 (22 May 1813) libretto by Angelo Anelli
- Il Turco in Italia (14 Aug 1814) libretto by Felice Romani
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia #9 (20 Feb 1816) libretto by Cesare Sterbini
- Otello (4 Dec 1816) libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa
- Armida (11 Nov 1817) libretto by Giovanni Schmidt
- La Cenerentola #29 (25 Jan 1817) libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
- Ermione (27 March 1819) libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola
- La Donna del Lago (24 Oct 1819) libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola
- Maometto II (3 Dec 1820) Libretto by Cesare della Valle
- Matilda di Shabran (24 Feb 1821) libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
- Semiramide (3 Feb 1823) libretto by Gaetano Rossi
- Il Viaggio a Reims #83 (19 June 1825) libretto by Luigi Balocchi (Paris)
- Le siège de Corinthe (9 Oct 1826) libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet
- Le Comte Ory (20 Aug 1828) libretto by Eugène Scribe
- Guillaume Tell (3 Aug 1829) libretto by Victor-Joseph-Ėtienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis and Armand Marrast
There are many more, but the regularly performed operas are included here. I have bolded those operas that have played at the Met. Rossini is the first Italian composer whose works have continued on in the repertoire. He trained himself in the orchestral style of Mozart and composed a greater percentage of a work than was generally the case. Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi followed in his steps.
He composed no operas after William Tell. There may have been more than one reason. Current thinking points to his ill health. However we may still point to the presence of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Fromental Halévy and the sudden popularity of Grand Opera. This new style did not appeal to Rossini.
