Question: What family commissioned the Operatic drama by Gioachino Rossini which premiered 18 May 1812 ?

text: List of operas by Gioachino Rossini
List of operas composed

This is a list of the operas of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). See List of compositions by Gioachino Rossini for his other works.
Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere date Place , opera house
Demetrio e Polibio dramma serio 2 acts Vincenzina Viganò-Mombelli , possibly after Metastasio 18 May 1812 ( composed 1806-09 ) Rome , Teatro Valle
La cambiale di matrimonio farsa comica 1 act Gaetano Rossi , after Camillo Federici and Giuseppe Checcherini 's libretto ( 1807 ) for Carlo Coccia 3 November 1810 Venice , Teatro San Moisè
L'equivoco stravagante dramma giocoso 2 acts Gaetano Gasbarri 26 October 1811 Bologna , Teatro del Corso
L'inganno felice farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa , after Giuseppe Palomba 's libretto ( 1798 ) for Giovanni Paisiello 8 January 1812 Venice , Teatro San Moisè
Ciro in Babilonia , ossia La caduta di Baldassare dramma con cori 2 acts Francesco Aventi 14 March 1812 Ferrara , Teatro comunale di Ferrara
La scala di seta farsa comica 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa , after François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard 's libretto ( 1808 ) for Pierre Gaveaux 9 May 1812 Venice , Teatro San Moisè
La pietra del paragone melodramma giocoso 2 acts Luigi Romanelli 26 September 1812 Milan , Teatro alla Scala
L'occasione fa il ladro , ossia Il cambio della valigia burletta per musica 1 act Luigi Prividali , after Le prétendu sans le savoir ( 1810 ) by Eugène Scribe 24 November 1812 Venice , Teatro San Moisè
Il signor Bruschino , ossia Il figlio per azzardo farsa giocosa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa , after Le fils par hasard ( 1809 ) by René de Chazet and Maurice Ourry 27 January 1813 Venice , Teatro San Moisè
Tancredi ( revised March 1813 ) melodramma eroico 2 acts Gaetano Rossi , after Voltaire ; revised by Luigi Lechi 6 February 1813 ; revised version : 21 March 1813 Venice , Teatro La Fenice ; revised version : Ferrara
L'italiana in Algeri dramma giocoso 2 acts Angelo Anelli , originally written ( 1808 ) for Luigi Mosca 22 May 1813 Venice , Teatro San Benedetto
Aureliano in Palmira dramma serio 2 acts G.F.R . ( attributed to Felice Romani , possibly in collaboration with Luigi Romanelli , or Gian Francesco Romanelli ) , after Gaetano Sertor 26 December 1813 Milan , Teatro alla Scala
Il turco in Italia dramma buffo 2 acts Felice Romani , after Caterino Mazzolà 's libretto ( 1788 ) for Franz Seydelmann 14 August 1814 Milan , Teatro alla Scala
Sigismondo dramma 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 26 December 1814 Venice , Teatro La Fenice
Elisabetta , regina d'Inghilterra dramma 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt , after Carlo Federici and Sophia Lee 4 October 1815 Naples , Teatro di San Carlo
Torvaldo e Dorliska dramma semiserio 2 acts Cesare Sterbini , after Jean-Baptiste de Coudry 's Vie et amours du chevalier de Faubles ( 1790 ) and other libretti based on this work such as Claude-François Fillette-Loraux 's libretto ( 1791 ) for Luigi Cherubini and Francesco Gonella 's libretto for ( 1796 ) Simon Mayr and Ferdinando Paer 26 December 1815 Rome , Teatro Valle
Il barbiere di Siviglia , ossia L'inutile precauzione ( initially titled Almaviva ) commedia 2 acts Cesare Sterbini , after Beaumarchais and Giuseppe Petrosellini 's libretto ( 1782 ) for Giovanni Paisiello 20 February 1816 Rome , Teatro Argentina
La gazzetta , ossia Il matrimonio per concorso dramma ( opera buffa ) 2 acts Giuseppe Palomba ( revised by Andrea Leone Tottola ) , after Il matrimonio per concorso ( 1763 ) by Carlo Goldoni 26 September 1816 Naples , Teatro de ' Fiorentini
Otello , ossia Il Moro di Venezia dramma 3 acts Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa , after Othello , ou le More de Venise ( 1792 ) by Jean-François Ducis 4 December 1816 Naples , Teatro del Fondo
La Cenerentola , ossia La bontà in trionfo dramma giocoso 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti , after Cendrillon ( 1698 ) by Charles Perrault and several libretti derived from it such as Charles-Guillaume Etienne 's libretto for Nicolas Isouard ( 1810 ) and Francesco Fiorini 's libretto for Stefano Pavesi 's Agatina ( 1814 ) 25 January 1817 Rome , Teatro Valle