question: Which of the following operas was written by Gioachino Rossini: Il turco in Italia or La Calisto?
answer: Il turco in Italia
context: Title: La Calisto
  Passage: The opera received its first performance on 28 November 1651 at the Teatro Sant 'Apollinare, Venice, where it drew limited audiences for its run of eleven performances.  In the twentieth century it was successfully revived.
  Title: Tancredi
  Passage: Tancredi is a "melodramma eroico" (opera seria or 'heroic' opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to write "Semiramide" ten years later), based on Voltaire's play "Tancrède" (1760).  The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 February 1813, and because "Il signor Bruschino" premiered in late January, the composer must have completed "Tancredi" in less than a month.  The overture, borrowed from "La pietra del paragone", is a popular example of Rossini's characteristic style and is regularly performed in concert and recorded.
  Title: Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani
  Passage: Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani (born 2 July 1772, Milan – 19 February 1832, Karlberg Palace) was an Italian ballet dancer.  He arrived in Stockholm in 1795 and was taken on by the Royal Swedish Ballet as its premier danseur, then as its ballet master from 1823 to 1827.  He was also dance master and gymnastics master at the Military Academy Karlberg until 1834.  He notably created ballets for operas like "Il turco in Italia" by Rossini, "Preciosa" by Weber and "Fernand Cortez" by Spontini.
  Title: Alessandra Marianelli
  Passage: Alessandra Marianelli (born 1986) is an Italian soprano.  She made her professional debut in 2002 as Barbarina in "Le nozze di Figaro" and went on to sing leading roles in the opera houses of her native country and internationally.  Her recordings include Amour in "Orphée et Eurydice" for Decca Records and Fiorilla in "Il turco in Italia" for Naxos Records.  She also appeared in Carlos Saura's 2009 film "Io, Don Giovanni".
  Title: List of operas by Rossini
  Passage: 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: Il turco in Italia
  Passage: Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.  The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani.  It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer in 1788.
  Title: Robin Guarino
  Passage: Robin Guarino (born April 3, 1960) is an opera and film director.  She has directed operas such as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Lohengrin", "Così fan tutte" , and "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera.  Also, she has directed at Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Virginia Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.  She continues to direct, most recently "L'etoile" and "The Marriage of Figaro" for the Wolf Trap Opera Festival, " La Calisto", "The Magic Flute" and "Iphigénie en Aulide" for Juilliard Opera Center, and at Gotham Chamber Opera, "Il Signor Bruschino".  She currently holds the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music."
  Title: Giuseppe Farinelli
  Passage: Giuseppe Farinelli (7 May 1769 – 12 December 1836) was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century who excelled in writing opera buffas. Considered the successor and most successful imitator of Domenico Cimarosa, the greatest of his roughly 60 operas include "I riti d'Efeso" (1803, Venice), "La contadina bizzarra" (1810, Milan) and "Ginevra degli Almieri" (1812, Venice).  More than 2/3 of his operas were produced between 1800-1810 at the height of his popularity.  With the arrival of Gioachino Rossini his operas became less desirable with the public, and by 1817 his operas were no longer performed.  His other compositions include 3 piano forte sonatas, 3 oratorios, 11 cantatas, 5 masses, 2 Te Deums, a Stabat mater, a Salve regina, a Tantum ergo, numerous motets, and several other sacred works.
  Title: Eleanor Greenwood
  Passage: Eleanor Greenwood is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.  Her debut with Wexford Festival Opera was as Pachole'" in "Maria" Polish Opera by Roman Statkowski.  She has performed roles including 'Hänsel' in "Hänsel und Gretel", Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Count Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus", La Ciesca in "Gianni Schicchi", Endimione in "La Calisto", The Wife in "Paradise Moscow (Cheryomushki)", L'Enfant in "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" and Zerlina"' in "Don Giovanni".  She has performed roles in the Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček.  She is the sister of Australian musicologist Andrew Greenwood.
  Title: William Tell discography
  Passage: This is a partial discography of William Tell (French: "Guillaume Tell"), an opera with music by Gioachino Rossini and a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis.  The work was first performed on 3 August 1829 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier.  It was first performed in Italian as "Guglielmo Tell" in Germany on 28–29 January 1831 in Dresden and in Italy on 17 September 1831 in Lucca (translated by Calisto Bassi).
citations: Il turco in Italia La Calisto