La cambiale di matrimonio

La cambiale di matrimonio The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract is a oneact operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici 1791 and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccias 1807 opera Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio The opera debuted on 3 November 1810 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old La cambiale di matrimonio was Rossinis first professional opera The overture written when he was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna is an important part of the modern concert repertoire As was to become typical of his later career the duet Dunque io son was later reused to greater effect in act 1 of The Barber of Seville