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Also, don't try to insult me just because I have a positive view of love and marriage. Saying things like "take off those rose colored glasses" is unwarrented and uncalled for.

 

No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick" part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb. Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

If any of you think you can "get to me", youre wasting your time

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur and paranoia is getting tiresome. Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you. Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

That's because your part of the "equation" is irrelevant and has no bearing on how much others enjoy or don't enjoy something, silly.

 

Nobody gives a flying f*** if you are upset, ovejoyed, indifferent or whatever, at least I don't. Stay a thick-headed asshole you are now forever for all I care, I am not in the moron-re-education business...the world won't stop spinning if you do or don't. Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. Duh.

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

That's because your part of the "equation" is irrelevant and has no bearing on how much others enjoy or don't enjoy something, silly.

 

Nobody gives a flying f*** if you are upset, ovejoyed, indifferent or whatever, at least I don't. Stay a thick-headed asshole you are now forever for all I care, I am not in the moron-re-education business...the world won't stop spinning if you do or don't. Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. Duh.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so we finally get down to it. Youre jealous of my love for myself. LOL, sorry bro, thats never gonna end. :lol: :headbang

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

That's because your part of the "equation" is irrelevant and has no bearing on how much others enjoy or don't enjoy something, silly.

 

Nobody gives a flying f*** if you are upset, ovejoyed, indifferent or whatever, at least I don't. Stay a thick-headed asshole you are now forever for all I care, I am not in the moron-re-education business...the world won't stop spinning if you do or don't. Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. Duh.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so we finally get down to it. Youre jealous of my love for myself. LOL, sorry bro, thats never gonna end. :lol: :headbang

Wow...who knew denial isn't just the name of the rod that's stuck deep up your ass.

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

That's because your part of the "equation" is irrelevant and has no bearing on how much others enjoy or don't enjoy something, silly.

 

Nobody gives a flying f*** if you are upset, ovejoyed, indifferent or whatever, at least I don't. Stay a thick-headed asshole you are now forever for all I care, I am not in the moron-re-education business...the world won't stop spinning if you do or don't. Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. Duh.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so we finally get down to it. Youre jealous of my love for myself. LOL, sorry bro, thats never gonna end. :lol: :headbang

Wow...who knew denial isn't just the name of the rod that's stuck deep up your ass.

jealousy sucks huh? :headbang

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No, I think some may accidentally overlook the "romantic" aspect of your statement, instead focusing on the "presumptious, self-righteous prick"  part that frankly sticks out like a sore thumb.  Your history of hitting below the belt (need a memory refreshed?) and thinly veiled gay bashing certainly doesn't help.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

 

Your massive delusion of grandeur  and paranoia is getting tiresome.  Go re-read some of your nonsensical manifestos and brag-athons. Do your own reserach.

 

Nobody cares to "get" to a like dumb-ass loser like you.  Now "ridiculing the pants off" and having grand ol' internet fun at your expense is another story altogether...lol

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! How is it at my expense if i dont care???? :huh: :lol:

That's because your part of the "equation" is irrelevant and has no bearing on how much others enjoy or don't enjoy something, silly.

 

Nobody gives a flying f*** if you are upset, ovejoyed, indifferent or whatever, at least I don't. Stay a thick-headed asshole you are now forever for all I care, I am not in the moron-re-education business...the world won't stop spinning if you do or don't. Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. Duh.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so we finally get down to it. Youre jealous of my love for myself. LOL, sorry bro, thats never gonna end. :lol: :headbang

Wow...who knew denial isn't just the name of the rod that's stuck deep up your ass.

jealousy sucks huh? :headbang

Not as much as your ADD-powered f***edup'ness. Naturally.

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Wow...who knew denial isn't just the name of the rod that's stuck deep up your ass.

omfg.. lmao where do you get this stuff............

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And I wouldn't want someone "by my side 24/7".  But to know that someone loves you and has made a vow to be with you until death, there's nothing better IMO. 

 

Old fashioned?  Maybe.  Naive?  Nah.  Correct?  I think so.  :)

I agree,

 

Almost asked my bf to marry me a while back... would have had to go to Norway or Netherlands to get it recognized tho :(

How about Vermont?

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And I wouldn't want someone "by my side 24/7".  But to know that someone loves you and has made a vow to be with you until death, there's nothing better IMO. 

 

Old fashioned?  Maybe.  Naive?  Nah.  Correct?  I think so.  :)

I agree,

 

Almost asked my bf to marry me a while back... would have had to go to Norway or Netherlands to get it recognized tho :(

How about Vermont?

Thats a civil union, not a marriage. Gay marriage would be nice. But I'd most prefer not having to worry about being fired for being gay, or getting arrested for having sex with my LTR boyfriend.

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Gay marriage would be nice. But I'd most prefer not having to worry about being fired for being gay, or getting arrested for having sex with my LTR boyfriend
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Lady, as long as your boyfriend is not a homosexual, it shouldn't be a problem.

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what is your favorite Verdi opera?

 

Mine is Aida - special meaning for me and someone else...

 

 

 

 

Giuseppe Verdi's operas

 

 

 

Opera, date of first performance,

 

theater, city, and librettist.

 

Role: Performer of the premier.

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif First appearance of a new opera

 

bullet12_push.gif Revised edition of an opera

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio

 

Known also as: Il finto Stanislao.

 

 

 

Opera in 2 acts

 

 

 

Premier: 17 November 1839

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

{& Piazza & Merelli}

 

 

 

Cuniza: Mary Shaw

 

Riccardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

Oberto: Ignazio Marini

 

Leonora: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

Imelda: Marietta Sacchi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Un Giorno di Regno

 

Melodrama giocoso in 2 acts

 

After the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineau-Duval.

 

 

 

Premier: 5 September 1840

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Felice Romani

 

 

 

Cavaliere di Belfiore: Raffaele Ferlotti

 

Baron Kelbar: Raffeale Scalese

 

Marchesa: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

Giulietta: Luigia Abbadia

 

Edoardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

La Rocca: Agostino Rovere

 

Count Ivrea: Giuseppe Vaschetti

 

Delmonte: Napoleone Marconi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Nabucco

 

Opera in 4 parts

 

After the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue.

 

 

 

Premier: 9 Mars 1842

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

 

 

Nabucco: Giorgio Ronconi

 

Abigaille: Giuseppina Strepponi

 

Ismaele: Corrado Miraglia

 

Zaccaria: Prosper Derivis

 

Fenena: Giovannina Bellinzaghi

 

High Priest of Baal: Gaetano Rossi

 

Abdallo: Napoleone Marconi

 

Anna: Teresa Ruggeri

 

bullet_glitter.gif I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the poem I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata by Tommaso Grossi.

 

 

 

Premier: 11 February 1843

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

 

 

Arvino: Giovani Severi

 

Pagano: Prosper Derivis

 

Viclinda: Teresa Ruggeri

 

Giselda: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

Pirro: Gaetano Rossi

 

Prior of the Milan: Napoleone Marconi

 

Acciano: Luigi Vairo

 

Oronte: Carlo Guasco

 

Sofia: Amalia Gandaglia

 

bullet_glitter.gif Ernani

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

 

 

 

Premier: 9 Mars 1844

 

Theater: La Fenice

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Ernani: Carlo Guasco

 

Don Carlo: Antonio Superchi

 

Silva: Antonio Selva

 

Elvira: Sofia Loewe

 

Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

Riccardo: Giovanni Lanner

 

Jago: Andrea Bellini

 

bullet_glitter.gif I Due Foscari

 

Opera in 3 acts

 

After the play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron.

 

 

 

Premier: 3 November 1844

 

Theater: Argentina

 

City: Rome

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Francesco: Achille De Bassini

 

Jacopo Foscari: Giacomo Roppa

 

Lucrezia: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

Loredano: Baldassare Miri

 

Barbarigo: Atanasio Pozzolini

 

Pisana: Giulia Ricci

 

bullet_glitter.gif Giovanna d' Arco

 

Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

After the drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Schiller.

 

 

 

Premier: 15 February 1845

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

 

 

Carlo VII: Antonio Poggi

 

Giacomo: Filippo Colini

 

Giovanna: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

Delil: Napoleone Marconi

 

Talbot: Francesco Lodetti

 

bullet_glitter.gif Alzira

 

Opera in 1 proloque & 2 acts

 

After the tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.

 

 

 

Premier: 12 August 1845

 

Theater: San Carlo

 

City: Naples

 

Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

 

 

Alvaro: Marco Arati

 

Gusmano: Filippo Coletti

 

Ovando: Ceci

 

Zamoro: Gaetano Fraschini

 

Ataliba: Michele Benedetti

 

Zuma: Maria Salvetti

 

Otumbo: Francesco Rossi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Attila

 

Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

After the play Attila, Köning der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.

 

 

 

Premier: 17 Mars 1846

 

Theater: La Fenice

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

 

 

Attila: Ignazio Marini

 

Ezio: Natale Costantini

 

Odabella: Sofia Loewe

 

Foresto: Carlo Guasco

 

Uldino: Ettore Profili

 

Leone: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

bullet_glitter.gif Macbeth

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

 

 

Premier: 14 Mars 1847

 

Theater: Pergola

 

City: Florence

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Macbeth: Felice Varesi

 

Lady Macbeth: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

Banco: Nicola Benedetti

 

Macduff: Angelo Brunacci

 

Malcolm: Francesco Rossi

 

A Doctor: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

A Murderer: Giuseppe Bertini

 

bullet_glitter.gif I Masnadieri

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the drama Die Räuber by Schiller.

 

 

 

Premier: 22 July 1847

 

Theater: Her Majesty's

 

City: London

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave {& Maffei}

 

 

 

Carlo: Italo Gardoni

 

Francesco: Filippo Coletti

 

Massimiliano: Luigi Lablache

 

Amalia: Jenny Lind

 

Arminio: Leone Corelli

 

Moser: Lucien Boucheé

 

bullet_glitter.gif Jérusalem

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

French revision of I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata.

 

 

 

Premier: 26 November 1847

 

Theater: Operà

 

City: Paris

 

Librettist: Alphonse Royer & Gustave Vaëz

 

 

 

Gaston: Gilbert Louis Duprez

 

Roger: Adolph Luis Joseph Alizard

 

Helen: Julian Van Gelder

 

Adhemar de Montheil: Hippolyte Bremont

 

Raymond: Barbot

 

Isaure: Muller

 

bullet_glitter.gif Il Corsaro

 

Opera in 3 acts

 

After the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

 

 

 

Premier: 25 October 1848

 

Theater: Grande

 

City: Trieste

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Corrado: Gaetano Fraschini

 

Gulnara: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

Medora: Carolina Rapazzini

 

Seid: Achille De Bassini

 

Giovanni: Giovanni Volpini

 

Selimo: Giovanni Petrovich

 

A Slave: Stefano Albanassich

 

A Eunuch: Francesco Cucchiari

 

bullet_glitter.gif La Battaglia di Legnano

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play La Bataille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry.

 

 

 

Premier: 27 January 1849

 

Theater: Argentina

 

City: Rome

 

Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

 

 

Arrigo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

Rolando: Filippo Colini

 

Lida: Teresa De Giuli-Borsi

 

Marcovaldo: Lodovico Butia

 

Barbarossa: Pietro Sottovia

 

First Consul: Alessahndro Lanzoni

 

Second Consul: Achille Testi

 

Mayor of Como: Filippo Giannini

 

Imelda: Vincenza Marchesi

 

Squire of Arrigo: Mariano Conti

 

A Herald: Gaetano Ferri

 

bullet_glitter.gif Luisa Miller

 

Opera 3 acts

 

After the drama Kabale und Liebe by Schiller.

 

 

 

Premier: 8 December 1849

 

Theater: San Carlo

 

City: Naples

 

Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

 

 

Luisa Miller: Marietta Gazzaniga

 

Rodolfo: Settimio Malvezzi

 

Miller: Achille De Bassini

 

Wurm: Marco Arati

 

Federica: Teresa Salandri

 

Laura: Maria Salvetti

 

A Peasant: Francesco Rossi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Stiffelio

 

Opera in 3 acts

 

After the play Le Pasteur, ou L' Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.

 

 

 

Premier: 16 November 1850

 

Theater: Grande

 

City: Trieste

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Stiffelio: Gaetano Fraschini

 

Lina: Marietta Gazzaniga-Malaspina

 

Stankar: Filippo Colini

 

Rafaele: Rainieri Dei

 

Jorg: Francesco Reduzzi

 

Federico: Giovanni Petrovich

 

Dorotea: Viezzoli De Silvestrini

 

bullet12_push.gif Gerusalemme

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

Italian translation of Jérusalem.

 

 

 

Premier: 26 December 1850

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Calisto Bassi

 

 

 

(Italian translation of the opera Jérusalem)

 

bullet_glitter.gif Rigoletto

 

Opera in 3 acts

 

After the drama Le Roi s' amuse by Victor Hugo.

 

 

 

Premier: 11 Mars 1851

 

Theater: La Fenice

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Duke: Raffaele Mirate

 

Rigoletto: Felice Varesi

 

Gilda: Teresa Brambilla

 

Sparafucile: Paolo Damini

 

Maddalena: Annetta Casaloni

 

Monterone: Feliciano Ponz

 

Count Ceprano: Andrea Bellini

 

Marullo: Francesco De Kunnerth

 

Borsa: Angelo Zuliani

 

Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

Countess Ceprano: Luigia Morselli

 

Court Usher: Giovanni Rizzi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Il Trovatore

 

Opera in 4 parts

 

After the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

 

 

Premier: 19 January 1853

 

Theater: Apollo

 

City: Rome

 

Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano {& Bardare}

 

 

 

Manrico: Carlo Baucardé

 

Leonora: Rosina Penco

 

Conte Di Luna: Giovanni Guicciardi

 

Azucena: Emiglia Goggi

 

Ferrando: Arcangelo Balderi

 

Ruiz: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

Ines: Francesca Quadri

 

An Old Gipsy: Raffaele Marconi

 

A Messanger: Luigi Fani

 

bullet_glitter.gif La Traviata

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

 

 

Premier: 6 Mars 1853

 

Theater: La Fenice

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Violetta: Fanny Salvini-Donatelli

 

Alfredo: Ludovico Graziani

 

Giorgio Germont: Felice Varesi

 

Flora: Speranza Giuseppini

 

Annina: Carlotta Berini

 

Gastone: Angelo Zuliani

 

Baron Douphol: Francesco Dragone

 

Marchese: Arnaldo Silvestri

 

Grenvil: Andrea Bellini

 

Giuseppe: G. Borsato

 

A Servant of Flora: G. Tona

 

Commissioner: Antonio Mazzini

 

bullet12_push.gif La Traviata (revised)

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

 

 

Premier: 6 May 1854

 

Theater: San Benedetto

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif Les Vêpres Siciliennes

Better known as I Vespri Siciliani.

 

Known also as: Giovanna de Guzman.

 

 

 

Grand opera in 5 acts

 

After the libretto Le Duc d' Albe by Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier.

 

 

 

Premier: 13 June 1855

 

Theater: Operà

 

City: Paris

 

Librettist: Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier

 

 

 

Guy de Monfort: Marc Bonnehée

 

Le Sire de Bethune: Coulon

 

Compte De Vaudemont: Guinot

 

Henri: Luis Gueymard

 

Jean Procida: Luis-Henri Obin

 

Hélène: Sophie Cruvelli

 

Nineta: Sannier

 

Daniéli: Boulo

 

Thibault: Aimes

 

Robert: Marie

 

Mainfroid: Koenig

 

bullet_glitter.gif Simon Boccanegra

 

Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

 

 

Premier: 12 Mars 1857

 

Theater: La Fenice

 

City: Venice

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Simone Boccanegra: Leone Giraldoni

 

Maria (Amelia): Luigia Bendazzi

 

Jacopo Fiesco: Giuseppe Echeverria

 

Gabriele Adorno: Carlo Negrini

 

Pietro: Andrea Bellini

 

Paolo: Giacomo Vercellini

 

bullet_glitter.gif Aroldo

 

Opera in 4 parts

 

Revision of Stiffelio.

 

 

 

Premier: 16 August 1857

 

Theater: Nuovo

 

City: Rimini

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Aroldo: Emilio Pancani

 

Mina: Marcellina Lotti

 

Egberto: Gaetano Ferri

 

Briano: G.B. Cornago

 

Godvino: Salvatore Poggiali

 

Enrico: Napoleone Senigaglia

 

Elena: Adelaide Panizza

 

bullet_glitter.gif Un Ballo in Maschera

 

Opera in 3 acts

 

After the libretto Gustave III by Augustin Eugène Scribe.

 

 

 

Premier: 17 February 1859

 

Theater: Apollo

 

City: Rome

 

Librettist: Antonio Somma

 

 

 

Riccardo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

Renato: Leone Giraldone

 

Amelia: Eugenia Julienne-Dejean

 

Ulrica: Zelina Sbriscia

 

Oscar: Pamela Scotti

 

Samuel: Cesare Rossi

 

Tom: Giovanni Bernardoni

 

Judge: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

Silvano: Stefano Santucci

 

Amelia's servant: Luigi Fossi

 

bullet_glitter.gif La Forza del Destino

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

 

 

Premier: 10 November 1862

 

Theater: Imperial

 

City: St. Petersburg

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Leonora: Carolina Balbot

 

Don Carlo: Francesco Granziani

 

Don Alvaro: Enrico Tamberlick

 

Preziosilla: Constance Nantier-Didier

 

Fra Melitone: Achille De Bassini

 

Marchese: Meo

 

Padre Guardano: Gian-Francesco Angelini

 

Trabuco: Geremia Bettini

 

Curra: Lagramanti

 

An Alcade: Ignazio Marini

 

A Surgeon: Alessandro Polonini

 

bullet12_push.gif Macbeth (revised)

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

 

 

Premier: 21 April 1865

 

Theater: Théâtre Lyrique

 

City: Paris

 

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

 

 

Macbeth: Ismael

 

Lady Macbeth: Rey-Balla

 

Banco: Bilis Petit

 

Macduff: Montjauze

 

Malcolm: Huet

 

A Doctor: Guyot

 

A Murderer: Caillot

 

bullet_glitter.gif Don Carlos

 

Grand Opera in 5 acts

 

After the dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Schiller.

 

 

 

Premier: 11 Mars 1867

 

Theater: Operà

 

City: Paris

 

Librettist: Joseph Méry & Camille du Locle

 

 

 

Don Carlos: A. Morère

 

Rodrigue: Jean-Baptiste Faure

 

Elisabeth: Marie-Constance Sass

 

Philippe II: Luis-Henri Obin

 

Grand Inquisitor: David

 

Eboli: Pauline Gueymard-Lauters

 

Thibault: Leonia Levielly

 

A Monk: Armand Castelmary

 

Count of Lerma: Gaspard

 

A Royal Herald: Mermant

 

Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

bullet12_push.gif La Forza del Destino (revised)

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

 

 

Premier: 27 February 1869

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

 

 

Leonora: Teresa Stolz

 

Don Carlo: Luigi Colonnese

 

Don Alvaro: Mario Tiberini

 

Marchese: Giuseppe Vecchi

 

Preziosilla: Ida Benzi

 

Trabucco: Antonio Tasso

 

Fra Melitone: Giacomo Rota

 

Padre Guardano: Marcello Junca

 

Curra: Ester Neri

 

Alcalde: Luigi Alessandrini

 

A Surgeon: Vincenzo Paraboschi

 

bullet_glitter.gif Aida

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

From a scenario by Auguste Mariette.

 

 

 

Premier: 24 December 1871

 

Theater: Opera House

 

City: Cairo

 

Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

 

 

Aida: Antonietta Anastasi-Pozzoni

 

Radames: Pietro Mongini

 

Amneris: Eleonora Grossi

 

The King: Tommaso Costa

 

Ramfis: Paolo Medini

 

Amonastro: Francesco Steller

 

High Priestess: Marietta Allievi

 

A Messanger: Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi

 

bullet12_push.gif Don Carlo

 

(revise #1 - 5 acts & ballet)

 

Premier: ?? ?? 1872

 

Theater: San Carlo

 

City: Naples

 

Librettist: Camille du Locle (additions: Antonio Ghislanzioni)

{Italian translation: Achille de Lauzières}

 

bullet12_push.gif Simon Boccanegra (revised)

 

Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

 

 

Premier: 24 Mars 1881

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Arrigo Boito {& Piave}

 

 

 

Simone Boccanegra: Victor Maurel

 

Fiesco: Edouard De Reszke

 

Maria (Amelia): Anna D'Angeli

 

Gabriele: Francesco Tamagno

 

Pietro: Giovanni Bianco

 

Paolo: Federico Salvati

 

Amelia's Maidservant: Fernanda Capelli

 

A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

A Captain: Angelo Fiorentini

 

bullet12_push.gif Don Carlo

 

(revise #2 - 4 acts, no ballet)

 

Premier: 10 January 1884

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Camille du Locle

{Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

 

 

Don Carlo: Francesco Tamagno

 

Elisabetta: Abigaille Bruschi-Chiatti

 

Rodrigo: Paolo Lhérie

 

Philippo II: Alessandro Silvestri

 

Grand Inquisitor: Francesco Navarini

 

Eboli: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

Tebaldo: Amelia Garten

 

Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

Count of Lerma: Angelo Fiorentini

 

A Royal Herald: Angelo Fiorentini

 

bullet12_push.gif Don Carlo

 

(revise #3 - 5 acts, no ballet)

 

Premier: 29 December 1886

 

Theater: Municipale

 

City: Modena

 

Librettist: Camille du Locle

{Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif Otello

 

Opera in 4 acts

 

After the play Othello by Shakespeare.

 

 

 

Premier: 5 February 1887

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

 

 

Otello: Francesco Tamagno

 

Desdemona: Romilda Pantaleoni

 

Iago: Victor Maurel

 

Cassio: Giovanni Paroli

 

Roderigo: Vincenzo Fornari

 

Lodovico: Francesco Navarini

 

Montano: Napoleone Limonta

 

Emilia: Ginevra Petrovich

 

bullet_glitter.gif Falstaff

 

Comic Opera in 4 acts

 

After the plays Falstaff and Henry IV (1 & 2) by Shakespeare.

 

 

 

Premier: 9 February 1893

 

Theater: La Scala

 

City: Milan

 

Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

 

 

Falstaff: Victor Maurel

 

Ford: Antonio Pini-Corsi

 

Alice Ford: Emma Zilli

 

Nanetta: Adelina Stehle

 

Mrs Quickly: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

Fenton: Edoardo Garbin

 

Caius: Giovanni Paroli

 

Bardolfo: Paolo Pelagelli-Rossetti

 

Pistola: Vittorio Arimondi

 

Meg Page: Virginia Guerrini

 

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now my favorite Puccini opera is of course La Boehme - but anyone have other choices?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bravo is the customary term of applause, appreciation,

and acclamation of an operatic performance.

 

In that sense,

ALL of the music of Giacomo Puccini deserves this declaration,

especially Tosca, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot.

 

 

 

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

 

 

 

Below is a chronological list of Puccini's operas

and appropriate midi music:

 

 

 

Le Villi (1884; premier: Teatro dal Verme, Milan)

(Revised 1884; premier: Teatro Regio, Turin)

 

Edgar (1889; premier: Teatro alla Scala, Milan)

(Revised 1892; premier: Teatro Communale, Ferrara)

(Revise 2 1905; premier Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires)

 

Manon Lescaut (1893; premier: Teatro Regio, Turin)

Background Music:

Donna non vidi mai Seq. by D.J. Morris

Stop before playing other selections.

 

La Bohème (1896; premier: Teatro Regio, Turin)

Synopsis

Act I - Part I Part II Seq. by Maurizio Salvi

Che gelida manina Seq. by Bill King

Al quartiere Latino Part I Part II Seq. by Maurizio Salvi

Questo mar rosso Seq. by Maurizio Salvi

Quando me'n vo Seq. by Bill King

Sono andati... fingevo di dormi Seq. by Marco MIlano

Si, Mi Chiamano Mimì Sequencer Unknown

Vecchia Zimarra Seq. by Marco Milano

 

Tosca (1900; premier: Teatro Costanzi, Rome)

Synopsis

E lucevan le stele Seq. by D.J. Morris

Recondita armonia Seq. by Leonard Trautner

Vissi d'Arte, Vissi d'Amore Seq. by Marco Milano

 

Madama Butterfly (1904; premier: Teatro alla Scala, Milan)

Synopsis

(Revised 1904; premier: Teatro Grande, Brescia)

(Revise 2 1905; premier: Covent Garden, London)

(Revise 3 1905; premier: Opéra Comique, Paris)

Un bel dì vedremo Seq. by Marco Milano

 

La Fanciulla del West (1910; premier: Metropolitan Opera, NY)

 

La Rondine (1917; premier: Opéra, Monte Carlo)

Synopsis

 

Il Trittico (three one-act operas: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi) (1918; premier: Metropolitan Opera, New York)

Hai ben ragione Il Tabarro Seq. by D.J. Morris

 

Turandot (1926; premier: Teatro alla Scala, Milan)

Synopsis

Nessun Dorma Seq. by John Mackay

 

 

 

 

If you are a sequencer, and can add to this page or know of other selections,

please e-mail me!

 

 

Did you know Puccini's operas (and others) are in the movies you watch?

 

Fatal Attraction - Madama Butterfly: Un bel di (Puccini) New Philharmonia

The Witches Of Eastwick - Turandot: Nessun dorma (Puccini) Rome Opera Orchestra

Moonstruck - La Boheme: Quando m'en vo (Puccini) Rome Opera Orchestra

Moonstruck - La Boheme: Donde lieta usci (Mimi's Addio) (Puccini) New Philharmonia

Moonstruck - La Boheme: O soave fanciulla (Puccini) London Philharmonic

Dark Eyes - The Barber of Seville: Una voce poco fa (Rossini) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Apocalypse Now - Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) Philadelphia Orchestra

Jean De Florette - La Forza del Destino: Overture (Verdi) London Symphony

Prizzi's Honor - The Barber of Seville: Overture (Rossini) Chicago Symphony

A Room With A View - Gianni Schicchi: Firenze e come un albero fiorito (Puccini) M.R.O.

A Room With A View - Gianni schicchi: O mio babbino caro (Puccini) New Philharmonia

A Room With A View - La Rondine: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Puccini) Italiana Opera Orchestra

Godfather III - Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo (Mascagni) National Philharmonic

The Untouchables - Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo) London Symphony

Diva - La Wally: Ebben? Ne andro lontano (Catalani) Munich Radio Orchestra

Wall Street - Rigoletto: Questa a quella (Verdi) RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra

Hannah And Her Sisters - Manon Lescaut: Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Puccini) New Philharmonia

 

and many, many more older movies...

 

 

 

Visit The OperaPage to hear other composer's opera midis!

 

 

 

 

 

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Have you visited my Carly Simon Page?

 

Have you visited my Billy Joel Page?

 

Have you visited my J.S. Bach Page?

 

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what is your favorite Verdi opera?

 

Mine is Aida - special meaning for me and someone else...

 

 

 

 

Giuseppe Verdi's operas

 

 

 

Opera, date of first performance,

 

theater, city, and librettist.

 

Role: Performer of the premier.

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif First appearance of a new opera

 

bullet12_push.gif  Revised edition of an opera

 

 

 

      bullet_glitter.gif Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio

 

            Known also as: Il finto Stanislao.

 

         

 

            Opera in 2 acts

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 November 1839

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

                            {& Piazza & Merelli}

 

         

 

                              Cuniza: Mary Shaw

 

                              Riccardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

                              Oberto: Ignazio Marini

 

                              Leonora: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

                              Imelda: Marietta Sacchi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Un Giorno di Regno

 

            Melodrama giocoso in 2 acts

 

            After the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineau-Duval.

 

         

 

            Premier: 5 September 1840

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Felice Romani

 

         

 

                              Cavaliere di Belfiore: Raffaele Ferlotti

 

                              Baron Kelbar: Raffeale Scalese

 

                              Marchesa: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

                              Giulietta: Luigia Abbadia

 

                              Edoardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

                              La Rocca: Agostino Rovere

 

                              Count Ivrea: Giuseppe Vaschetti

 

                              Delmonte: Napoleone Marconi

 

    bullet_glitter.gif  Nabucco

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            After the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 Mars 1842

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Nabucco: Giorgio Ronconi

 

                              Abigaille: Giuseppina Strepponi

 

                              Ismaele: Corrado Miraglia

 

                              Zaccaria: Prosper Derivis

 

                              Fenena: Giovannina Bellinzaghi

 

                              High Priest of Baal: Gaetano Rossi

 

                              Abdallo: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Anna: Teresa Ruggeri

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the poem I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata by Tommaso Grossi.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 February 1843

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Arvino: Giovani Severi

 

                              Pagano: Prosper Derivis

 

                              Viclinda: Teresa Ruggeri

 

                              Giselda: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

                              Pirro: Gaetano Rossi

 

                              Prior of the Milan: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Acciano: Luigi Vairo

 

                              Oronte: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Sofia: Amalia Gandaglia

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Ernani

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 Mars 1844

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Ernani: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Don Carlo: Antonio Superchi

 

                              Silva: Antonio Selva

 

                              Elvira: Sofia Loewe

 

                              Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

                              Riccardo: Giovanni Lanner

 

                              Jago: Andrea Bellini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Due Foscari

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron.

 

         

 

            Premier: 3 November 1844

 

            Theater: Argentina

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Francesco: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Jacopo Foscari: Giacomo Roppa

 

                              Lucrezia: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Loredano: Baldassare Miri

 

                              Barbarigo: Atanasio Pozzolini

 

                              Pisana: Giulia Ricci

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Giovanna d' Arco

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 15 February 1845

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Carlo VII: Antonio Poggi

 

                              Giacomo: Filippo Colini

 

                              Giovanna: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

                              Delil: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Talbot: Francesco Lodetti

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Alzira

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 2 acts

 

            After the tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.

 

         

 

            Premier: 12 August 1845

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Alvaro: Marco Arati

 

                              Gusmano: Filippo Coletti

 

                              Ovando: Ceci

 

                              Zamoro: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Ataliba: Michele Benedetti

 

                              Zuma: Maria Salvetti

 

                              Otumbo: Francesco Rossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Attila

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Attila, Köning der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 Mars 1846

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Attila: Ignazio Marini

 

                              Ezio: Natale Costantini

 

                              Odabella: Sofia Loewe

 

                              Foresto: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Uldino: Ettore Profili

 

                              Leone: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Macbeth

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 14 Mars 1847

 

            Theater: Pergola

 

            City: Florence

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Macbeth: Felice Varesi

 

                              Lady Macbeth: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Banco: Nicola Benedetti

 

                              Macduff: Angelo Brunacci

 

                              Malcolm: Francesco Rossi

 

                              A Doctor: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

                              A Murderer: Giuseppe Bertini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Masnadieri

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the drama Die Räuber by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 22 July 1847

 

            Theater: Her Majesty's

 

            City: London

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave {& Maffei}

 

         

 

                              Carlo: Italo Gardoni

 

                              Francesco: Filippo Coletti

 

                              Massimiliano: Luigi Lablache

 

                              Amalia: Jenny Lind

 

                              Arminio: Leone Corelli

 

                              Moser: Lucien Boucheé

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Jérusalem

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            French revision of I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata.

 

         

 

            Premier: 26 November 1847

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Alphonse Royer & Gustave Vaëz

 

         

 

                              Gaston: Gilbert Louis Duprez

 

                              Roger: Adolph Luis Joseph Alizard

 

                              Helen: Julian Van Gelder

 

                              Adhemar de Montheil: Hippolyte Bremont

 

                              Raymond: Barbot

 

                              Isaure: Muller

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Il Corsaro

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

 

         

 

            Premier: 25 October 1848

 

            Theater: Grande

 

            City: Trieste

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Corrado: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Gulnara: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Medora: Carolina Rapazzini

 

                              Seid: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Giovanni: Giovanni Volpini

 

                              Selimo: Giovanni Petrovich

 

                              A Slave: Stefano Albanassich

 

                              A Eunuch: Francesco Cucchiari

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Battaglia di Legnano

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Bataille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry.

 

         

 

            Premier: 27 January 1849

 

            Theater: Argentina

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Arrigo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Rolando: Filippo Colini

 

                              Lida: Teresa De Giuli-Borsi

 

                              Marcovaldo: Lodovico Butia

 

                              Barbarossa: Pietro Sottovia

 

                              First Consul: Alessahndro Lanzoni

 

                              Second Consul: Achille Testi

 

                              Mayor of Como: Filippo Giannini

 

                              Imelda: Vincenza Marchesi

 

                              Squire of Arrigo: Mariano Conti

 

                              A Herald: Gaetano Ferri

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Luisa Miller

 

            Opera 3 acts

 

            After the drama Kabale und Liebe by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 8 December 1849

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Luisa Miller: Marietta Gazzaniga

 

                              Rodolfo: Settimio Malvezzi

 

                              Miller: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Wurm: Marco Arati

 

                              Federica: Teresa Salandri

 

                              Laura: Maria Salvetti

 

                              A Peasant: Francesco Rossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Stiffelio

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the play Le Pasteur, ou L' Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.

 

         

 

            Premier: 16 November 1850

 

            Theater: Grande

 

            City: Trieste

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Stiffelio: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Lina: Marietta Gazzaniga-Malaspina

 

                              Stankar: Filippo Colini

 

                              Rafaele: Rainieri Dei

 

                              Jorg: Francesco Reduzzi

 

                              Federico: Giovanni Petrovich

 

                              Dorotea: Viezzoli De Silvestrini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Gerusalemme

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            Italian translation of Jérusalem.

 

         

 

            Premier: 26 December 1850

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Calisto Bassi

 

         

 

            (Italian translation of the opera Jérusalem)

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Rigoletto

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the drama Le Roi s' amuse by Victor Hugo.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 Mars 1851

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Duke: Raffaele Mirate

 

                              Rigoletto: Felice Varesi

 

                              Gilda: Teresa Brambilla

 

                              Sparafucile: Paolo Damini

 

                              Maddalena: Annetta Casaloni

 

                              Monterone: Feliciano Ponz

 

                              Count Ceprano: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Marullo: Francesco De Kunnerth

 

                              Borsa: Angelo Zuliani

 

                              Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

                              Countess Ceprano: Luigia Morselli

 

                              Court Usher: Giovanni Rizzi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Il Trovatore

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            After the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 19 January 1853

 

            Theater: Apollo

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano {& Bardare}

 

         

 

                              Manrico: Carlo Baucardé

 

                              Leonora: Rosina Penco

 

                              Conte Di Luna: Giovanni Guicciardi

 

                              Azucena: Emiglia Goggi

 

                              Ferrando: Arcangelo Balderi

 

                              Ruiz: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

                              Ines: Francesca Quadri

 

                              An Old Gipsy: Raffaele Marconi

 

                              A Messanger: Luigi Fani

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Traviata

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

         

 

            Premier: 6 Mars 1853

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Violetta: Fanny Salvini-Donatelli

 

                              Alfredo: Ludovico Graziani

 

                              Giorgio Germont: Felice Varesi

 

                              Flora: Speranza Giuseppini

 

                              Annina: Carlotta Berini

 

                              Gastone: Angelo Zuliani

 

                              Baron Douphol: Francesco Dragone

 

                              Marchese: Arnaldo Silvestri

 

                              Grenvil: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Giuseppe: G. Borsato

 

                              A Servant of Flora: G. Tona

 

                              Commissioner: Antonio Mazzini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  La Traviata (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

         

 

            Premier: 6 May 1854

 

            Theater: San Benedetto

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Les Vêpres Siciliennes

            Better known as I Vespri Siciliani.

 

            Known also as: Giovanna de Guzman.

 

         

 

            Grand opera in 5 acts

 

            After the libretto Le Duc d' Albe by Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier.

 

         

 

            Premier: 13 June 1855

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier

 

         

 

                              Guy de Monfort: Marc Bonnehée

 

                              Le Sire de Bethune: Coulon

 

                              Compte De Vaudemont: Guinot

 

                              Henri: Luis Gueymard

 

                              Jean Procida: Luis-Henri Obin

 

                              Hélène: Sophie Cruvelli

 

                              Nineta: Sannier

 

                              Daniéli: Boulo

 

                              Thibault: Aimes

 

                              Robert: Marie

 

                              Mainfroid: Koenig

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Simon Boccanegra

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 12 Mars 1857

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Simone Boccanegra: Leone Giraldoni

 

                              Maria (Amelia): Luigia Bendazzi

 

                              Jacopo Fiesco: Giuseppe Echeverria

 

                              Gabriele Adorno: Carlo Negrini

 

                              Pietro: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Paolo: Giacomo Vercellini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Aroldo

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            Revision of Stiffelio.

 

         

 

            Premier: 16 August 1857

 

            Theater: Nuovo

 

            City: Rimini

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Aroldo: Emilio Pancani

 

                              Mina: Marcellina Lotti

 

                              Egberto: Gaetano Ferri

 

                              Briano: G.B. Cornago

 

                              Godvino: Salvatore Poggiali

 

                              Enrico: Napoleone Senigaglia

 

                              Elena: Adelaide Panizza

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Un Ballo in Maschera

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the libretto Gustave III by Augustin Eugène Scribe.

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 February 1859

 

            Theater: Apollo

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Antonio Somma

 

         

 

                              Riccardo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Renato: Leone Giraldone

 

                              Amelia: Eugenia Julienne-Dejean

 

                              Ulrica: Zelina Sbriscia

 

                              Oscar: Pamela Scotti

 

                              Samuel: Cesare Rossi

 

                              Tom: Giovanni Bernardoni

 

                              Judge: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

                              Silvano: Stefano Santucci

 

                              Amelia's servant: Luigi Fossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Forza del Destino

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

         

 

            Premier: 10 November 1862

 

            Theater: Imperial

 

            City: St. Petersburg

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Leonora: Carolina Balbot

 

                              Don Carlo: Francesco Granziani

 

                              Don Alvaro: Enrico Tamberlick

 

                              Preziosilla: Constance Nantier-Didier

 

                              Fra Melitone: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Marchese: Meo

 

                              Padre Guardano: Gian-Francesco Angelini

 

                              Trabuco: Geremia Bettini

 

                              Curra: Lagramanti

 

                              An Alcade: Ignazio Marini

 

                              A Surgeon: Alessandro Polonini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Macbeth (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 21 April 1865

 

            Theater: Théâtre Lyrique

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Macbeth: Ismael

 

                              Lady Macbeth: Rey-Balla

 

                              Banco: Bilis Petit

 

                              Macduff: Montjauze

 

                              Malcolm: Huet

 

                              A Doctor: Guyot

 

                              A Murderer: Caillot

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Don Carlos

 

            Grand Opera in 5 acts

 

            After the dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 Mars 1867

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Joseph Méry & Camille du Locle

 

         

 

                              Don Carlos: A. Morère

 

                              Rodrigue: Jean-Baptiste Faure

 

                              Elisabeth: Marie-Constance Sass

 

                              Philippe II: Luis-Henri Obin

 

                              Grand Inquisitor: David

 

                              Eboli: Pauline Gueymard-Lauters

 

                              Thibault: Leonia Levielly

 

                              A Monk: Armand Castelmary

 

                              Count of Lerma: Gaspard

 

                              A Royal Herald: Mermant

 

                              Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

      bullet12_push.gif  La Forza del Destino (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

         

 

            Premier: 27 February 1869

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

         

 

                              Leonora: Teresa Stolz

 

                              Don Carlo: Luigi Colonnese

 

                              Don Alvaro: Mario Tiberini

 

                              Marchese: Giuseppe Vecchi

 

                              Preziosilla: Ida Benzi

 

                              Trabucco: Antonio Tasso

 

                              Fra Melitone: Giacomo Rota

 

                              Padre Guardano: Marcello Junca

 

                              Curra: Ester Neri

 

                              Alcalde: Luigi Alessandrini

 

                              A Surgeon: Vincenzo Paraboschi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Aida

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            From a scenario by Auguste Mariette.

 

         

 

            Premier: 24 December 1871

 

            Theater: Opera House

 

            City: Cairo

 

            Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

         

 

                              Aida: Antonietta Anastasi-Pozzoni

 

                              Radames: Pietro Mongini

 

                              Amneris: Eleonora Grossi

 

                              The King: Tommaso Costa

 

                              Ramfis: Paolo Medini

 

                              Amonastro: Francesco Steller

 

                              High Priestess: Marietta Allievi

 

                              A Messanger: Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #1 - 5 acts & ballet)

 

            Premier: ?? ?? 1872

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle  (additions: Antonio Ghislanzioni)

                  {Italian translation: Achille de Lauzières}

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Simon Boccanegra (revised)

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 24 Mars 1881

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito {& Piave}

 

         

 

                              Simone Boccanegra: Victor Maurel

 

                              Fiesco: Edouard De Reszke

 

                              Maria (Amelia): Anna D'Angeli

 

                              Gabriele: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Pietro: Giovanni Bianco

 

                              Paolo: Federico Salvati

 

                              Amelia's Maidservant: Fernanda Capelli

 

                              A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

                              A Captain: Angelo Fiorentini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #2 - 4 acts, no ballet)

 

            Premier: 10 January 1884

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle

                  {Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

         

 

                              Don Carlo: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Elisabetta: Abigaille Bruschi-Chiatti

 

                              Rodrigo: Paolo Lhérie

 

                              Philippo II: Alessandro Silvestri

 

                              Grand Inquisitor: Francesco Navarini

 

                              Eboli: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

                              Tebaldo: Amelia Garten

 

                              Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

                              A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

                              Count of Lerma: Angelo Fiorentini

 

                              A Royal Herald: Angelo Fiorentini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #3 - 5 acts, no ballet)

 

            Premier: 29 December 1886

 

            Theater: Municipale

 

            City: Modena

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle

                  {Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

         

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Otello

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Othello by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 5 February 1887

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

         

 

                              Otello: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Desdemona: Romilda Pantaleoni

 

                              Iago: Victor Maurel

 

                              Cassio: Giovanni Paroli

 

                              Roderigo: Vincenzo Fornari

 

                              Lodovico: Francesco Navarini

 

                              Montano: Napoleone Limonta

 

                              Emilia: Ginevra Petrovich

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Falstaff

 

            Comic Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the plays Falstaff and Henry IV (1 & 2) by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 February 1893

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

         

 

                              Falstaff: Victor Maurel

 

                              Ford: Antonio Pini-Corsi

 

                              Alice Ford: Emma Zilli

 

                              Nanetta: Adelina Stehle

 

                              Mrs Quickly: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

                              Fenton: Edoardo Garbin

 

                              Caius: Giovanni Paroli

 

                              Bardolfo: Paolo Pelagelli-Rossetti

 

                              Pistola: Vittorio Arimondi

 

                              Meg Page: Virginia Guerrini

 

                            Greek

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Giuseppe Verdi's operas

 

 

 

Opera, date of first performance,

 

theater, city, and librettist.

 

Role: Performer of the premier.

 

 

 

bullet_glitter.gif First appearance of a new opera

 

bullet12_push.gif  Revised edition of an opera

 

 

 

      bullet_glitter.gif Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio

 

            Known also as: Il finto Stanislao.

 

         

 

            Opera in 2 acts

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 November 1839

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

                            {& Piazza & Merelli}

 

         

 

                              Cuniza: Mary Shaw

 

                              Riccardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

                              Oberto: Ignazio Marini

 

                              Leonora: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

                              Imelda: Marietta Sacchi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Un Giorno di Regno

 

            Melodrama giocoso in 2 acts

 

            After the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineau-Duval.

 

         

 

            Premier: 5 September 1840

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Felice Romani

 

         

 

                              Cavaliere di Belfiore: Raffaele Ferlotti

 

                              Baron Kelbar: Raffeale Scalese

 

                              Marchesa: Antonietta Rainieri-Marini

 

                              Giulietta: Luigia Abbadia

 

                              Edoardo: Lorenzo Salvi

 

                              La Rocca: Agostino Rovere

 

                              Count Ivrea: Giuseppe Vaschetti

 

                              Delmonte: Napoleone Marconi

 

    bullet_glitter.gif  Nabucco

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            After the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 Mars 1842

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Nabucco: Giorgio Ronconi

 

                              Abigaille: Giuseppina Strepponi

 

                              Ismaele: Corrado Miraglia

 

                              Zaccaria: Prosper Derivis

 

                              Fenena: Giovannina Bellinzaghi

 

                              High Priest of Baal: Gaetano Rossi

 

                              Abdallo: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Anna: Teresa Ruggeri

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the poem I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata by Tommaso Grossi.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 February 1843

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Arvino: Giovani Severi

 

                              Pagano: Prosper Derivis

 

                              Viclinda: Teresa Ruggeri

 

                              Giselda: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

                              Pirro: Gaetano Rossi

 

                              Prior of the Milan: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Acciano: Luigi Vairo

 

                              Oronte: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Sofia: Amalia Gandaglia

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Ernani

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 Mars 1844

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Ernani: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Don Carlo: Antonio Superchi

 

                              Silva: Antonio Selva

 

                              Elvira: Sofia Loewe

 

                              Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

                              Riccardo: Giovanni Lanner

 

                              Jago: Andrea Bellini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Due Foscari

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron.

 

         

 

            Premier: 3 November 1844

 

            Theater: Argentina

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Francesco: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Jacopo Foscari: Giacomo Roppa

 

                              Lucrezia: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Loredano: Baldassare Miri

 

                              Barbarigo: Atanasio Pozzolini

 

                              Pisana: Giulia Ricci

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Giovanna d' Arco

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 15 February 1845

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Carlo VII: Antonio Poggi

 

                              Giacomo: Filippo Colini

 

                              Giovanna: Erminia Frezzolini-Poggi

 

                              Delil: Napoleone Marconi

 

                              Talbot: Francesco Lodetti

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Alzira

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 2 acts

 

            After the tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.

 

         

 

            Premier: 12 August 1845

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Alvaro: Marco Arati

 

                              Gusmano: Filippo Coletti

 

                              Ovando: Ceci

 

                              Zamoro: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Ataliba: Michele Benedetti

 

                              Zuma: Maria Salvetti

 

                              Otumbo: Francesco Rossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Attila

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Attila, Köning der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 Mars 1846

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Temistocle Solera

 

         

 

                              Attila: Ignazio Marini

 

                              Ezio: Natale Costantini

 

                              Odabella: Sofia Loewe

 

                              Foresto: Carlo Guasco

 

                              Uldino: Ettore Profili

 

                              Leone: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Macbeth

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 14 Mars 1847

 

            Theater: Pergola

 

            City: Florence

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Macbeth: Felice Varesi

 

                              Lady Macbeth: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Banco: Nicola Benedetti

 

                              Macduff: Angelo Brunacci

 

                              Malcolm: Francesco Rossi

 

                              A Doctor: Giuseppe Romanelli

 

                              A Murderer: Giuseppe Bertini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  I Masnadieri

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the drama Die Räuber by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 22 July 1847

 

            Theater: Her Majesty's

 

            City: London

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave {& Maffei}

 

         

 

                              Carlo: Italo Gardoni

 

                              Francesco: Filippo Coletti

 

                              Massimiliano: Luigi Lablache

 

                              Amalia: Jenny Lind

 

                              Arminio: Leone Corelli

 

                              Moser: Lucien Boucheé

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Jérusalem

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            French revision of I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata.

 

         

 

            Premier: 26 November 1847

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Alphonse Royer & Gustave Vaëz

 

         

 

                              Gaston: Gilbert Louis Duprez

 

                              Roger: Adolph Luis Joseph Alizard

 

                              Helen: Julian Van Gelder

 

                              Adhemar de Montheil: Hippolyte Bremont

 

                              Raymond: Barbot

 

                              Isaure: Muller

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Il Corsaro

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

 

         

 

            Premier: 25 October 1848

 

            Theater: Grande

 

            City: Trieste

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Corrado: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Gulnara: Marianna Barbieri-Nini

 

                              Medora: Carolina Rapazzini

 

                              Seid: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Giovanni: Giovanni Volpini

 

                              Selimo: Giovanni Petrovich

 

                              A Slave: Stefano Albanassich

 

                              A Eunuch: Francesco Cucchiari

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Battaglia di Legnano

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Bataille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry.

 

         

 

            Premier: 27 January 1849

 

            Theater: Argentina

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Arrigo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Rolando: Filippo Colini

 

                              Lida: Teresa De Giuli-Borsi

 

                              Marcovaldo: Lodovico Butia

 

                              Barbarossa: Pietro Sottovia

 

                              First Consul: Alessahndro Lanzoni

 

                              Second Consul: Achille Testi

 

                              Mayor of Como: Filippo Giannini

 

                              Imelda: Vincenza Marchesi

 

                              Squire of Arrigo: Mariano Conti

 

                              A Herald: Gaetano Ferri

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Luisa Miller

 

            Opera 3 acts

 

            After the drama Kabale und Liebe by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 8 December 1849

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano

 

         

 

                              Luisa Miller: Marietta Gazzaniga

 

                              Rodolfo: Settimio Malvezzi

 

                              Miller: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Wurm: Marco Arati

 

                              Federica: Teresa Salandri

 

                              Laura: Maria Salvetti

 

                              A Peasant: Francesco Rossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Stiffelio

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the play Le Pasteur, ou L' Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.

 

         

 

            Premier: 16 November 1850

 

            Theater: Grande

 

            City: Trieste

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Stiffelio: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Lina: Marietta Gazzaniga-Malaspina

 

                              Stankar: Filippo Colini

 

                              Rafaele: Rainieri Dei

 

                              Jorg: Francesco Reduzzi

 

                              Federico: Giovanni Petrovich

 

                              Dorotea: Viezzoli De Silvestrini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Gerusalemme

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            Italian translation of Jérusalem.

 

         

 

            Premier: 26 December 1850

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Calisto Bassi

 

         

 

            (Italian translation of the opera Jérusalem)

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Rigoletto

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the drama Le Roi s' amuse by Victor Hugo.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 Mars 1851

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Duke: Raffaele Mirate

 

                              Rigoletto: Felice Varesi

 

                              Gilda: Teresa Brambilla

 

                              Sparafucile: Paolo Damini

 

                              Maddalena: Annetta Casaloni

 

                              Monterone: Feliciano Ponz

 

                              Count Ceprano: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Marullo: Francesco De Kunnerth

 

                              Borsa: Angelo Zuliani

 

                              Giovanna: Laura Saini

 

                              Countess Ceprano: Luigia Morselli

 

                              Court Usher: Giovanni Rizzi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Il Trovatore

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            After the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 19 January 1853

 

            Theater: Apollo

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano {& Bardare}

 

         

 

                              Manrico: Carlo Baucardé

 

                              Leonora: Rosina Penco

 

                              Conte Di Luna: Giovanni Guicciardi

 

                              Azucena: Emiglia Goggi

 

                              Ferrando: Arcangelo Balderi

 

                              Ruiz: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

                              Ines: Francesca Quadri

 

                              An Old Gipsy: Raffaele Marconi

 

                              A Messanger: Luigi Fani

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Traviata

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

         

 

            Premier: 6 Mars 1853

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Violetta: Fanny Salvini-Donatelli

 

                              Alfredo: Ludovico Graziani

 

                              Giorgio Germont: Felice Varesi

 

                              Flora: Speranza Giuseppini

 

                              Annina: Carlotta Berini

 

                              Gastone: Angelo Zuliani

 

                              Baron Douphol: Francesco Dragone

 

                              Marchese: Arnaldo Silvestri

 

                              Grenvil: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Giuseppe: G. Borsato

 

                              A Servant of Flora: G. Tona

 

                              Commissioner: Antonio Mazzini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  La Traviata (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play La Damme aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

 

         

 

            Premier: 6 May 1854

 

            Theater: San Benedetto

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Les Vêpres Siciliennes

            Better known as I Vespri Siciliani.

 

            Known also as: Giovanna de Guzman.

 

         

 

            Grand opera in 5 acts

 

            After the libretto Le Duc d' Albe by Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier.

 

         

 

            Premier: 13 June 1855

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier

 

         

 

                              Guy de Monfort: Marc Bonnehée

 

                              Le Sire de Bethune: Coulon

 

                              Compte De Vaudemont: Guinot

 

                              Henri: Luis Gueymard

 

                              Jean Procida: Luis-Henri Obin

 

                              Hélène: Sophie Cruvelli

 

                              Nineta: Sannier

 

                              Daniéli: Boulo

 

                              Thibault: Aimes

 

                              Robert: Marie

 

                              Mainfroid: Koenig

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Simon Boccanegra

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 12 Mars 1857

 

            Theater: La Fenice

 

            City: Venice

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Simone Boccanegra: Leone Giraldoni

 

                              Maria (Amelia): Luigia Bendazzi

 

                              Jacopo Fiesco: Giuseppe Echeverria

 

                              Gabriele Adorno: Carlo Negrini

 

                              Pietro: Andrea Bellini

 

                              Paolo: Giacomo Vercellini

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Aroldo

 

            Opera in 4 parts

 

            Revision of Stiffelio.

 

         

 

            Premier: 16 August 1857

 

            Theater: Nuovo

 

            City: Rimini

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Aroldo: Emilio Pancani

 

                              Mina: Marcellina Lotti

 

                              Egberto: Gaetano Ferri

 

                              Briano: G.B. Cornago

 

                              Godvino: Salvatore Poggiali

 

                              Enrico: Napoleone Senigaglia

 

                              Elena: Adelaide Panizza

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Un Ballo in Maschera

 

            Opera in 3 acts

 

            After the libretto Gustave III by Augustin Eugène Scribe.

 

         

 

            Premier: 17 February 1859

 

            Theater: Apollo

 

            City: Rome

 

            Librettist: Antonio Somma

 

         

 

                              Riccardo: Gaetano Fraschini

 

                              Renato: Leone Giraldone

 

                              Amelia: Eugenia Julienne-Dejean

 

                              Ulrica: Zelina Sbriscia

 

                              Oscar: Pamela Scotti

 

                              Samuel: Cesare Rossi

 

                              Tom: Giovanni Bernardoni

 

                              Judge: Giuseppe Bassoli

 

                              Silvano: Stefano Santucci

 

                              Amelia's servant: Luigi Fossi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  La Forza del Destino

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

         

 

            Premier: 10 November 1862

 

            Theater: Imperial

 

            City: St. Petersburg

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Leonora: Carolina Balbot

 

                              Don Carlo: Francesco Granziani

 

                              Don Alvaro: Enrico Tamberlick

 

                              Preziosilla: Constance Nantier-Didier

 

                              Fra Melitone: Achille De Bassini

 

                              Marchese: Meo

 

                              Padre Guardano: Gian-Francesco Angelini

 

                              Trabuco: Geremia Bettini

 

                              Curra: Lagramanti

 

                              An Alcade: Ignazio Marini

 

                              A Surgeon: Alessandro Polonini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Macbeth (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 21 April 1865

 

            Theater: Théâtre Lyrique

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

 

         

 

                              Macbeth: Ismael

 

                              Lady Macbeth: Rey-Balla

 

                              Banco: Bilis Petit

 

                              Macduff: Montjauze

 

                              Malcolm: Huet

 

                              A Doctor: Guyot

 

                              A Murderer: Caillot

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Don Carlos

 

            Grand Opera in 5 acts

 

            After the dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Schiller.

 

         

 

            Premier: 11 Mars 1867

 

            Theater: Operà

 

            City: Paris

 

            Librettist: Joseph Méry & Camille du Locle

 

         

 

                              Don Carlos: A. Morère

 

                              Rodrigue: Jean-Baptiste Faure

 

                              Elisabeth: Marie-Constance Sass

 

                              Philippe II: Luis-Henri Obin

 

                              Grand Inquisitor: David

 

                              Eboli: Pauline Gueymard-Lauters

 

                              Thibault: Leonia Levielly

 

                              A Monk: Armand Castelmary

 

                              Count of Lerma: Gaspard

 

                              A Royal Herald: Mermant

 

                              Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

      bullet12_push.gif  La Forza del Destino (revised)

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra & Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.

 

         

 

            Premier: 27 February 1869

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

         

 

                              Leonora: Teresa Stolz

 

                              Don Carlo: Luigi Colonnese

 

                              Don Alvaro: Mario Tiberini

 

                              Marchese: Giuseppe Vecchi

 

                              Preziosilla: Ida Benzi

 

                              Trabucco: Antonio Tasso

 

                              Fra Melitone: Giacomo Rota

 

                              Padre Guardano: Marcello Junca

 

                              Curra: Ester Neri

 

                              Alcalde: Luigi Alessandrini

 

                              A Surgeon: Vincenzo Paraboschi

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Aida

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            From a scenario by Auguste Mariette.

 

         

 

            Premier: 24 December 1871

 

            Theater: Opera House

 

            City: Cairo

 

            Librettist: Antonio Ghislanzoni

 

         

 

                              Aida: Antonietta Anastasi-Pozzoni

 

                              Radames: Pietro Mongini

 

                              Amneris: Eleonora Grossi

 

                              The King: Tommaso Costa

 

                              Ramfis: Paolo Medini

 

                              Amonastro: Francesco Steller

 

                              High Priestess: Marietta Allievi

 

                              A Messanger: Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #1 - 5 acts & ballet)

 

            Premier: ?? ?? 1872

 

            Theater: San Carlo

 

            City: Naples

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle  (additions: Antonio Ghislanzioni)

                  {Italian translation: Achille de Lauzières}

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Simon Boccanegra (revised)

 

            Opera in 1 proloque & 3 acts

 

            After the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

         

 

            Premier: 24 Mars 1881

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito {& Piave}

 

         

 

                              Simone Boccanegra: Victor Maurel

 

                              Fiesco: Edouard De Reszke

 

                              Maria (Amelia): Anna D'Angeli

 

                              Gabriele: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Pietro: Giovanni Bianco

 

                              Paolo: Federico Salvati

 

                              Amelia's Maidservant: Fernanda Capelli

 

                              A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

                              A Captain: Angelo Fiorentini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #2 - 4 acts, no ballet)

 

            Premier: 10 January 1884

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle

                  {Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

         

 

                              Don Carlo: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Elisabetta: Abigaille Bruschi-Chiatti

 

                              Rodrigo: Paolo Lhérie

 

                              Philippo II: Alessandro Silvestri

 

                              Grand Inquisitor: Francesco Navarini

 

                              Eboli: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

                              Tebaldo: Amelia Garten

 

                              Aremberg: Angelina Pirola

 

                              A Monk: Leopoldo Cromberg

 

                              Count of Lerma: Angelo Fiorentini

 

                              A Royal Herald: Angelo Fiorentini

 

      bullet12_push.gif  Don Carlo

 

        (revise #3 - 5 acts, no ballet)

 

            Premier: 29 December 1886

 

            Theater: Municipale

 

            City: Modena

 

            Librettist: Camille du Locle

                  {Italian translation: Angelo Zanardini}

 

         

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Otello

 

            Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the play Othello by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 5 February 1887

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

         

 

                              Otello: Francesco Tamagno

 

                              Desdemona: Romilda Pantaleoni

 

                              Iago: Victor Maurel

 

                              Cassio: Giovanni Paroli

 

                              Roderigo: Vincenzo Fornari

 

                              Lodovico: Francesco Navarini

 

                              Montano: Napoleone Limonta

 

                              Emilia: Ginevra Petrovich

 

      bullet_glitter.gif  Falstaff

 

            Comic Opera in 4 acts

 

            After the plays Falstaff and Henry IV (1 & 2) by Shakespeare.

 

         

 

            Premier: 9 February 1893

 

            Theater: La Scala

 

            City: Milan

 

            Librettist: Arrigo Boito

 

         

 

                              Falstaff: Victor Maurel

 

                              Ford: Antonio Pini-Corsi

 

                              Alice Ford: Emma Zilli

 

                              Nanetta: Adelina Stehle

 

                              Mrs Quickly: Giuseppina Pasqua

 

                              Fenton: Edoardo Garbin

 

                              Caius: Giovanni Paroli

 

                              Bardolfo: Paolo Pelagelli-Rossetti

 

                              Pistola: Vittorio Arimondi

 

                              Meg Page: Virginia Guerrini

 

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Now I think I have posted before that my favorite handel oipera is Xerxes - I was so disappointed that I missed seeing Parenthope this year at the Lyric - what are other people's favorite Handel operas?

 

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL'S OPERAS

ACCORDING TO THE HWV

 

Senesino - Fr.Cuzzoni - G.Berenstadt

 

1 Almira (Der in Kronen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel)

3S (Almira, Bellante, Edilia)

3T, 2B (Fernando, Osman, Tabarco/ Consalvo, Raymondo)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., va., and vc. str. & b.c.

2 Nero (Die durch Blut und Mord erlangte Liebe)

music lost

3 Florindo (Der beglückte Florindo)

music lost

4 Daphne (Die verwandelte Daphne)

music lost

5 Rodrigo (Vincer si stesso è la maggior vittoria)

2S (Esilena, Florinda)

2S, A, T (Evanco*, Rodrigo14/ Fernando18// Giuliano)

2 rec., 2 ob., solo vl., str. & b.c.

6 Agrippina

2S, A (Agrippina, Poppea; Giunone)

S, 2A, 3B (Nerone22 / Narciso1, Ottone*// Claudio, Lesbo, Pallante)

2 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

7a Rinaldo (1711 version)

5S, M (Almirena, Armida, Donna, Sirene I & II; Goffredo)

S, 2A, T, B (Rinaldo16/ Eustazio21 [-], Mago13 // Araldo/ Argante)

4 trp., timp., flag., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo hpcd., solo vl., str. & b.c.

7b Rinaldo (1731 version)

4S, M (Almirena, Donna, Sirene I & II; Armida)

M, A, T, 2B (Rinaldo20/ Argante*// Goffredo/ Araldo, Mago)

trp., 2 hrn., fl. picc. (flag.), 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

8a Il pastor fido (1712 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla [A]; Dorinda)

S, A, B (Mirtillo22/ Silvio21 [s -> T]// Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8b Il pastor fido ("Terpsichore", prologue to the 1734 version)

S (Erato)

A (Apollo12)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8c Il pastor fido (1734 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla; Dorinda)

A, T, B (Mirtillo12// Silvio/ Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

9 Teseo

4S (Agilea, Clizia, Fedra, Medea)

S, 2A, B (Teseo22/ Arcane*, Egeo21// Ministro di Minerva [orig. S])

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

10 Lucio Cornelio Silla

3S (Celia, Flavia, Metella)

S, 2M, B (Lepido22/ Claudio*, Silla21// Il Dio)

trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

11 Amadigi di Gaula

2S (Melissa, Oriana)

S, M, A (Orgando*/ Amadigi16/ Dardano*)

choir à 4; trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

12a Radamisto (April 1720 version)

S, A (Polissena; Zenobia)

3S, T, B (Fraarte5, Radamisto*, Tigrane*// Tridate/ Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

12b Radamisto (December 1720 version)

2S (Polissena, Zenobia)

2S, M, 2B (Fraarte*, Tigrane [A]8/ Radamisto20// Tridate, Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

13 Muzio Scevola, Act 3 (Act 1 by F. Amadei, Act 2 by G.B. Bononcini)

2S, A (Clelia, Fidalma [-]/ Irene)

2S, M, B (Lucio Tarquinio* , Orazio8 [-]/ Muzio Scevola20// Larte Porsenna)

2 trp., 2 hrn.(, trv.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

14 Floridante

S, A (Rossane [orig. A]/ Elmira)

S, M, 2B (Timante5/ Floridante20// Coralbo, Oronte)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

15 Ottone, Re di Germania

2S, A (Gismonda [A], Teofane/ Matilda )

M, A, B (Ottone20/ Adalberto6 // Emireno)

rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

16 Flavio, Re de'Langobardi

S, A (Emilia/ Teodata)

S, M, A, T, B (Vitige* [A]/ Guido20/ Flavio6// Ugone / Lotario [T])

rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

17 Giulio Cesare in Egitto

S, A (Cleopatra/ Cornelia)

S, M, 2A, 2B (Sesto* [T]/ G.Cesare20/ Nireno9 [-], Tolomeo6// Achilla [A], Curio [-])

4 hrn., (trp., 1725), 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., harp, vdg., thb., str. & b.c.

18 Tamerlano

2S (Asteria, Irene)

M, A, T, B (Andronico20/ Tamerlano17// Bajazet/ Leone)

(2 crnt.), 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

19 Rodelina, Regina de'Langobardi

S, A (Rodelinda/ Eduige)

M, A, T, B (Bertarido20/ Unulfo17// Grimoaldo/ Garibaldo)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

20 Scipione (Publio Cornelio Scipione)

2S (Armira [A], Berenice)

S, A, T, B (Lucejo20/ Scipione4 [T]// C. Lelio [A]/ Ernando)

2 hrn., (2 rec.), 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

21 Alessandro

2S (Rossane, Lisaura)

M, 2A, T, B (Alessandro20/ Cleone* [-], Tassile4// Leonato [-]/ Clito)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

22 Admeto, Re di Tessaglia

2S (Alceste, Antigona)

M, 2A, 3B (Admeto20/ Orindo*, Trasimede4// Ercole, Meraspe, voce: La Statua)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

23 Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra

2S (Costanza, Pulcheria)

M, A, 2B (Riccardo Primo20/ Oronte4// Berardo, Isacio)

3 trp. timp., 2 hrn., fl. picc., rec., B-trv., (2 chlx.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

24 Siroe, Re di Persia

2S (Emira, Laodice)

M, A, 2B (Siroe20/ Medarse4// Arasse, Cosroe)

2 ob., str. & b.c.

25 Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto

2S (Elisa, Seleuce)

M, A, B (Tolomeo20/ Alessandro4// Araspe)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

26 Lotario

S, A (Adelaide/ Matilde)

M, A, T, B (Lotario7/ Idelberto*// Berengario/ Clodomiro)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

27 Partenope

S, A (Partenope/ Rosmira)

M, A, T, B (Arsace7/ Arminio* // Emilio/ Ormonte [A])

trp., 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., thb., str. & b.c.

28 Poro, Re dell'Indie

S, A (Cleofide/ Erissena)

M, A, T, B (Poro20/ Gandarte*// Alessandro il Grande/ Timagene)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

29 Ezio

S, A (Fulvia/ Onoria)

M, A, T, B (Ezio20/ Valentiniano III.*//Massimo/ Varo)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

30 Sosarme, Re di Media

S, A (Elmira/ Erenice)

M, 2A, T, B (Sosarme20/ Argone11 , Melo*// Haliate / Altomaro)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., bn., thb., vl. soo, str. & b.c.

31 Orlando

S, M (Angelica/ Dorinda)

M, A, B (Medoro*/ Orlando20// Zoroastro)

2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., 2 vlt. mar., str. & b.c.

32 Arianna in Creta

S, A (Arianna/ Carilda)

S, 2M, 2B (Alceste19/ Tauride*, Teseo12// Minos, Il Sonno)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

33 Ariodante

2 S (Dalinda [orig. A], Ginevra)

M, A, 2T, B (Ariodante12/ Polinesso*//Lurcanio, Odoardo/ Il Re di Scozia)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

34 Alcina

S, A (Alcina, Morgana [A]/ Bradamante)

t, M, T, B (Oberto#/ Ruggiero12 // Oronte/ Melisso)

choir à 5; 2 hrn., fl. picc, 2 rec. 2 ob., bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

35 Atalanta

S, A (Atalanta/ Irene)

S, T, 2B (Meleagro15// Arminta/ Mercurio, Nircandro)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

36 Arminio

S, A (Tusnelda; Ramise)

S, M, A, T, B (Sigismondo15/ Arminio3/ Tullio* [orig. B]// Varo/ Segeste)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

37 Giustino

t, S, A (La Fortuna#/ Arianna/ Leocasta)

S, M, A, T, 2B (Anastasio15/ Giust.3/ Amancio* // Vitaliano/ Polidarte, Voce di dentro)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., B-rec., ob. solo, 2 ob. bn., str. & b.c.

38 Berenice, Regina d'Egitto

S, A (Berenice/ Selene)

S, M, A, T, B (Alessandro15/ Demetrio3/ Arsace*// Fabio/ Aristoboldo)

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

39 Faramondo

S, M (Clotilde/ Rosimonda)

t, 2S, A, 2B (Childerico#/ Adolfo*, Faramondo10/ Gernando*// Gustavo, Teobaldo)

choir à 4; 2 hrn, trv., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

40 Serse

2S, A (Atalanta, Romilda/ Amastre)

S, M, 2B (Serse10/ Arsamene*// Ariodate [orig. S], Elviro[orig. A])

choir à 4; trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

41 Imeneo

2S (Clomiri, Rosmene)

M, 2B (Tirinto2// Argenio, Imeneo [T])

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

42 Deidamia

2S (Deidamia, Nerea)

2S, 2B (Achille*, Ulisse2// Fenice, Lycomede)

choir à 4; 2 trp., timp., 2 hrn.., 2 ob., bn. (, lute), str. & b.c.

 

General remarks:

 

* For the high male rôles the numbers refer to the castrato who sang the part at the first performance (*: female singer, #: boy soprano (treble) William Savage):

 

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20

21

22 Albertini, Giuliano

Andreoni, Giovanni Battista

Annibali, Domenico

Baldi, Antonio

Benedetti (Benedetto Baldassari)

Berenstadt,Gaetano

Bernacchi, Antonio Maria

Berselli, Matteo

Bigonzi, -?-

Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano)

Campioli (Antonio Gualandi)

Carestini, Giovanni

Cassari, Giuseppe

Frilli, Stefano

Gizziello (Gioacchino Conti)

Nicolini (Nicolo Grimaldi)

Pacini, Andrea

Perini, Giuseppe

Scalzi, Carlo

Senesino (Francesco Bernardi)

Valentini (Valentino Urbani)

Valeriano(Valeriano Pellegrini) 6

41, 42

36, 37, 38

20 - 25

12a

15, 16, 17

26, 27

12b, 13, 14

17

39, 40

30

8b, 8c, 32, 33, 34

7a

5

35, 36, 37, 38

7a, 11

18, 19

5

32

7b, 12b, 13 - 25, 28 - 31

7a, 8a, 9, 10

6, 8a, 9, 10

Senesino

 

Handel often alternated between singers of both genders, depending on availability. Changes of the range at later performances are indicated in brackets ([-]: rôle cut). In some cases the range changed already before the first performance. Here, the range in the score is indicated by "orig.".

 

* In most cases the choir may be sung by the soloists.

* Silent rôles are not contained in the list.

* Instruments in brackets were used in some performances only and may be omitted.

* abbrevations: thb.: theorbo (bass lute), hpcd.: harpsichord, vdg.: viola da gamba (viol)

 

Comments about some instruments (in brackets: act, scene):

 

* flauto piccolo and flageolett: sopranino recorders (they differ in the number of holes)

o Rinaldo (I, 6): "Augeletti chi cantate" (Almirena)

o Alcina (III, 11): Tamburino

* cornetto:

o Tamerlano (II, 6): "Parche mi nasca in seno" (Irene), Handel wrote an alternative version of this aria for traverse flutes

* traversa bassa: perhaps not a bass instrument, the name merely indicates that the instrument transposes downwards

o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Morte vieni" (Costanza)

* chalumeau: precursor of the clarinet

o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Quando non vedo" (Pulcheria), this aria is the alternative version for "Quell'innocente" (with 2 oboes)

* violetta marina: probably a viola d'amore with 7+14 strings

o Orlando (III, 8): "Gia l'ebro mio ciglio" (Orlando)

* basso de' flauti: a bass recorder

o Giustino (I, 4): "Pùo ben nascer" (Giustino)

 

The operas and their scoring (with str. & b.c.) in alphabetical order:

 

Opera HWV soli and choir brass woodw. solo str. other instr. approx.

duration

S/M/A/T/B ch. tr./hr. rc./tr./ob./bn. vl./va./vc.

Admeto 22 2/1/2/-/3 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 210'

Agrippina 6 3/-3/-/3 - 2*/- 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 180'

Alcina 34 3/1/1/1/1 5 -/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/1 fl.picc 180'

Alessandro 21 2/1/2/1/1 4 2/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Almira 1 3/-/-/3/2 4 3*/- 2/-/2/1 1/1/1 - 170'

Amadigi 11 3/1/1/-/- 4 1/- 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Arianna 32 2/2/1/-/2 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/ - 150'

Ariodante 33 2/1/1/2/1 4 2/2 2/2/2/1 -/-/- - 200'

Arminio 36 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Atalanta 35 2/-/1/1/2 4 3*/2 -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Berenice 38 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Daphne 4 music lost -

Deidamia 42 4/-/-/-/2 4 2*/2 -/-/2/1 -/-/- (lute) 180'

Ezio 29 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 130'

Faramondo 39 4/1/1/-/2 4 -/2 -/1/2- -/-/- - 180'

Flavio 16 2/1/2/1/1 - -/- 1/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Floridante 14 2/1/1/-/2 - 2/2 2/-/2/2 -/-/- - 165'

Florindo 3 music lost -

G.Cesare 17 2/1/3/-/2 - (1)/4 2/1/2/2 1/-/- harp, thb., vdg. 220'

Giustuno 37 3/1/2/1/2 4 2/2 2+B/-/3/1 -/-/- - 180'

Imeneo 41 2/1-/-/2 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 120'

Lotario 26 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/-/2/2 -/-/- - 170'

Muzio 13 4/1/1/-/1 - 2/2 -/(1)/2/1 -/-/- - 90/200'

Nero 2 music lost -

Orlando 31 1/2/1/-/1 - -/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- 2 vlt. mar. 160'

Ottone 15 2/1/2/-/1 - -/- 1/-/2/2 -/-/- - 190'

Partenope 27 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- thb. 190'

Pastor fido 8a 3/-/2/-/1 4 -/- -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 120'

8b 1/-/1/-/- 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 40'

8c 2/-/2/1/1 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

Poro 28 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/1/2/1 1/-/ - 190'

Radamisto 12a 4/-/1/1/1 - 2/2 -1/2/2 1/-/1 - 140'

12b 4/1/-/-/2 - 2/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Riccardo I. 23 2/1/1/-/2 - 3*/2 1/B/2/1 -/-/- fl.picc., (2 chlx.) 180'

Rinaldo 7a 6/1/2/1/1 - 4*/- 2/-/2/1 1/-/- hpcd., flag. 180'

7b 5/2/1/1/2 - 1/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/- fl.picc. 200'

Rodelinda 19 1/1/2/1/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Rodrigo 5 4/-/1/1/- - -/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Scipione 20 3/-/1/1/1 - -/2 (2)/2/2/1 1/-/- - 150'

Serse 40 3/1/1/-/2 4 1/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 170'

Silla 10 4/2/-/-2 - 1/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 90'

Siroe 24 2/1/1/-/2 - -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 160'

Sosarme 30 1/1/3/1/1 - 2/2 -/-/2/1 1/-/- thb. 160'

Tamerlano 18 2/1/1/1/1 - -/- 2/2/2/1 -/-/- (2 crnt.) 210'

Teseo 9 5/-/2/-/1 4 2/- 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 155'

Tolomeo 25 2/1/1/-/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

 

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Now I think I have posted before that my favorite handel oipera is Xerxes - I was so disappointed that I missed seeing Parenthope this year at the Lyric -  what are other people's favorite Handel operas?

 

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL'S OPERAS

ACCORDING TO THE HWV

 

Senesino - Fr.Cuzzoni - G.Berenstadt

 

1 Almira (Der in Kronen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel)

3S (Almira, Bellante, Edilia)

3T, 2B (Fernando, Osman, Tabarco/ Consalvo, Raymondo)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., va., and vc. str. & b.c.

2 Nero (Die durch Blut und Mord erlangte Liebe)

music lost

3 Florindo (Der beglückte Florindo)

music lost

4 Daphne (Die verwandelte Daphne)

music lost

5 Rodrigo (Vincer si stesso è la maggior vittoria)

2S (Esilena, Florinda)

2S, A, T (Evanco*, Rodrigo14/ Fernando18// Giuliano)

2 rec., 2 ob., solo vl., str. & b.c.

6 Agrippina

2S, A (Agrippina, Poppea; Giunone)

S, 2A, 3B (Nerone22 / Narciso1, Ottone*// Claudio, Lesbo, Pallante)

2 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

7a Rinaldo (1711 version)

5S, M (Almirena, Armida, Donna, Sirene I & II; Goffredo)

S, 2A, T, B (Rinaldo16/ Eustazio21 [-], Mago13 // Araldo/ Argante)

4 trp., timp., flag., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo hpcd., solo vl., str. & b.c.

7b Rinaldo (1731 version)

4S, M (Almirena, Donna, Sirene I & II; Armida)

M, A, T, 2B (Rinaldo20/ Argante*// Goffredo/ Araldo, Mago)

trp., 2 hrn., fl. picc. (flag.), 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

8a Il pastor fido (1712 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla [A]; Dorinda)

S, A, B (Mirtillo22/ Silvio21 [s -> T]// Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8b Il pastor fido ("Terpsichore", prologue to the 1734 version)

S (Erato)

A (Apollo12)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8c Il pastor fido (1734 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla; Dorinda)

A, T, B (Mirtillo12// Silvio/ Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

9 Teseo

4S (Agilea, Clizia, Fedra, Medea)

S, 2A, B (Teseo22/ Arcane*, Egeo21// Ministro di Minerva [orig. S])

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

10 Lucio Cornelio Silla

3S (Celia, Flavia, Metella)

S, 2M, B (Lepido22/ Claudio*, Silla21// Il Dio)

trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

11 Amadigi di Gaula

2S (Melissa, Oriana)

S, M, A (Orgando*/ Amadigi16/ Dardano*)

choir à 4; trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

12a Radamisto (April 1720 version)

S, A (Polissena; Zenobia)

3S, T, B (Fraarte5, Radamisto*, Tigrane*// Tridate/ Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

12b Radamisto (December 1720 version)

2S (Polissena, Zenobia)

2S, M, 2B (Fraarte*, Tigrane [A]8/ Radamisto20// Tridate, Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

13 Muzio Scevola, Act 3 (Act 1 by F. Amadei, Act 2 by G.B. Bononcini)

2S, A (Clelia, Fidalma [-]/ Irene)

2S, M, B (Lucio Tarquinio* , Orazio8 [-]/ Muzio Scevola20// Larte Porsenna)

2 trp., 2 hrn.(, trv.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

14 Floridante

S, A (Rossane [orig. A]/ Elmira)

S, M, 2B (Timante5/ Floridante20// Coralbo, Oronte)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

15 Ottone, Re di Germania

2S, A (Gismonda [A], Teofane/ Matilda )

M, A, B (Ottone20/ Adalberto6 // Emireno)

rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

16 Flavio, Re de'Langobardi

S, A (Emilia/ Teodata)

S, M, A, T, B (Vitige* [A]/ Guido20/ Flavio6// Ugone / Lotario [T])

rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

17 Giulio Cesare in Egitto

S, A (Cleopatra/ Cornelia)

S, M, 2A, 2B (Sesto* [T]/ G.Cesare20/ Nireno9 [-], Tolomeo6// Achilla [A], Curio [-])

4 hrn., (trp., 1725), 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., harp, vdg., thb., str. & b.c.

18 Tamerlano

2S (Asteria, Irene)

M, A, T, B (Andronico20/ Tamerlano17// Bajazet/ Leone)

(2 crnt.), 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

19 Rodelina, Regina de'Langobardi

S, A (Rodelinda/ Eduige)

M, A, T, B (Bertarido20/ Unulfo17// Grimoaldo/ Garibaldo)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

20 Scipione (Publio Cornelio Scipione)

2S (Armira [A], Berenice)

S, A, T, B (Lucejo20/ Scipione4 [T]// C. Lelio [A]/ Ernando)

2 hrn., (2 rec.), 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

21 Alessandro

2S (Rossane, Lisaura)

M, 2A, T, B (Alessandro20/ Cleone* [-], Tassile4// Leonato [-]/ Clito)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

22 Admeto, Re di Tessaglia

2S (Alceste, Antigona)

M, 2A, 3B (Admeto20/ Orindo*, Trasimede4// Ercole, Meraspe, voce: La Statua)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

23 Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra

2S (Costanza, Pulcheria)

M, A, 2B (Riccardo Primo20/ Oronte4// Berardo, Isacio)

3 trp. timp., 2 hrn., fl. picc., rec., B-trv., (2 chlx.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

24 Siroe, Re di Persia

2S (Emira, Laodice)

M, A, 2B (Siroe20/ Medarse4// Arasse, Cosroe)

2 ob., str. & b.c.

25 Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto

2S (Elisa, Seleuce)

M, A, B (Tolomeo20/ Alessandro4// Araspe)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

26 Lotario

S, A (Adelaide/ Matilde)

M, A, T, B (Lotario7/ Idelberto*// Berengario/ Clodomiro)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

27 Partenope

S, A (Partenope/ Rosmira)

M, A, T, B (Arsace7/ Arminio* // Emilio/ Ormonte [A])

trp., 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., thb., str. & b.c.

28 Poro, Re dell'Indie

S, A (Cleofide/ Erissena)

M, A, T, B (Poro20/ Gandarte*// Alessandro il Grande/ Timagene)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

29 Ezio

S, A (Fulvia/ Onoria)

M, A, T, B (Ezio20/ Valentiniano III.*//Massimo/ Varo)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

30 Sosarme, Re di Media

S, A (Elmira/ Erenice)

M, 2A, T, B (Sosarme20/ Argone11 , Melo*// Haliate / Altomaro)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., bn., thb., vl. soo, str. & b.c.

31 Orlando

S, M (Angelica/ Dorinda)

M, A, B (Medoro*/ Orlando20// Zoroastro)

2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., 2 vlt. mar., str. & b.c.

32 Arianna in Creta

S, A (Arianna/ Carilda)

S, 2M, 2B (Alceste19/ Tauride*, Teseo12// Minos, Il Sonno)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

33 Ariodante

2 S (Dalinda [orig. A], Ginevra)

M, A, 2T, B (Ariodante12/ Polinesso*//Lurcanio, Odoardo/ Il Re di Scozia)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

34 Alcina

S, A (Alcina, Morgana [A]/ Bradamante)

t, M, T, B (Oberto#/ Ruggiero12 // Oronte/ Melisso)

choir à 5; 2 hrn., fl. picc, 2 rec. 2 ob., bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

35 Atalanta

S, A (Atalanta/ Irene)

S, T, 2B (Meleagro15// Arminta/ Mercurio, Nircandro)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

36 Arminio

S, A (Tusnelda; Ramise)

S, M, A, T, B (Sigismondo15/ Arminio3/ Tullio* [orig. B]// Varo/ Segeste)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

37 Giustino

t, S, A (La Fortuna#/ Arianna/ Leocasta)

S, M, A, T, 2B (Anastasio15/ Giust.3/ Amancio* // Vitaliano/ Polidarte, Voce di dentro)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., B-rec., ob. solo, 2 ob. bn., str. & b.c.

38 Berenice, Regina d'Egitto

S, A (Berenice/ Selene)

S, M, A, T, B (Alessandro15/ Demetrio3/ Arsace*// Fabio/ Aristoboldo)

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

39 Faramondo

S, M (Clotilde/ Rosimonda)

t, 2S, A, 2B (Childerico#/ Adolfo*, Faramondo10/ Gernando*// Gustavo, Teobaldo)

choir à 4; 2 hrn, trv., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

40 Serse

2S, A (Atalanta, Romilda/ Amastre)

S, M, 2B (Serse10/ Arsamene*// Ariodate [orig. S], Elviro[orig. A])

choir à 4; trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

41 Imeneo

2S (Clomiri, Rosmene)

M, 2B (Tirinto2// Argenio, Imeneo [T])

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

42 Deidamia

2S (Deidamia, Nerea)

2S, 2B (Achille*, Ulisse2// Fenice, Lycomede)

choir à 4; 2 trp., timp., 2 hrn.., 2 ob., bn. (, lute), str. & b.c.

 

General remarks:

 

    * For the high male rôles the numbers refer to the castrato who sang the part at the first performance (*: female singer, #: boy soprano (treble) William Savage):

 

      1

      2

      3

      4

      5

      6

      7

      8

      9

      10

      11

      12

      13

      14

      15

      16

      17

      18

      19

      20

      21

      22 Albertini, Giuliano

      Andreoni, Giovanni Battista

      Annibali, Domenico

      Baldi, Antonio

      Benedetti (Benedetto Baldassari)

      Berenstadt,Gaetano

      Bernacchi, Antonio Maria

      Berselli, Matteo

      Bigonzi, -?-

      Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano)

      Campioli (Antonio Gualandi)

      Carestini, Giovanni

      Cassari, Giuseppe

      Frilli, Stefano

      Gizziello (Gioacchino Conti)

      Nicolini (Nicolo Grimaldi)

      Pacini, Andrea

      Perini, Giuseppe

      Scalzi, Carlo

      Senesino (Francesco Bernardi)

      Valentini (Valentino Urbani)

      Valeriano(Valeriano Pellegrini) 6

      41, 42

      36, 37, 38

      20 - 25

      12a

      15, 16, 17

      26, 27

      12b, 13, 14

      17

      39, 40

      30

      8b, 8c, 32, 33, 34

      7a

      5

      35, 36, 37, 38

      7a, 11

      18, 19

      5

      32

      7b, 12b, 13 - 25, 28 - 31

      7a, 8a, 9, 10

      6, 8a, 9, 10

      Senesino

 

Handel often alternated between singers of both genders, depending on availability. Changes of the range at later performances are indicated in brackets ([-]: rôle cut). In some cases the range changed already before the first performance. Here, the range in the score is indicated by "orig.".

 

    * In most cases the choir may be sung by the soloists.

    * Silent rôles are not contained in the list.

    * Instruments in brackets were used in some performances only and may be omitted.

    * abbrevations: thb.: theorbo (bass lute), hpcd.: harpsichord, vdg.: viola da gamba (viol)

 

Comments about some instruments (in brackets: act, scene):

 

    * flauto piccolo and flageolett: sopranino recorders (they differ in the number of holes)

          o Rinaldo (I, 6): "Augeletti chi cantate" (Almirena)

    o Alcina (III, 11): Tamburino

    * cornetto:

    o Tamerlano (II, 6): "Parche mi nasca in seno" (Irene), Handel wrote an alternative version of this aria for traverse flutes

    * traversa bassa: perhaps not a bass instrument, the name merely indicates that the instrument transposes downwards

    o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Morte vieni" (Costanza)

    * chalumeau: precursor of the clarinet

    o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Quando non vedo" (Pulcheria), this aria is the alternative version for "Quell'innocente" (with 2 oboes)

    * violetta marina: probably a viola d'amore with 7+14 strings

    o Orlando (III, 8): "Gia l'ebro mio ciglio" (Orlando)

    * basso de' flauti: a bass recorder

    o Giustino (I, 4): "Pùo ben nascer" (Giustino)

 

The operas and their scoring (with str. & b.c.) in alphabetical order:

 

Opera HWV soli and choir brass woodw. solo str. other instr. approx.

duration

S/M/A/T/B ch. tr./hr. rc./tr./ob./bn. vl./va./vc.

Admeto 22 2/1/2/-/3 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 210'

Agrippina 6 3/-3/-/3 - 2*/- 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 180'

Alcina 34 3/1/1/1/1 5 -/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/1 fl.picc 180'

Alessandro 21 2/1/2/1/1 4 2/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Almira 1 3/-/-/3/2 4 3*/- 2/-/2/1 1/1/1 - 170'

Amadigi 11 3/1/1/-/- 4 1/- 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Arianna 32 2/2/1/-/2 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/ - 150'

Ariodante 33 2/1/1/2/1 4 2/2 2/2/2/1 -/-/- - 200'

Arminio 36 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Atalanta 35 2/-/1/1/2 4 3*/2 -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Berenice 38 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Daphne 4 music lost -

Deidamia 42 4/-/-/-/2 4 2*/2 -/-/2/1 -/-/- (lute) 180'

Ezio 29 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 130'

Faramondo 39 4/1/1/-/2 4 -/2 -/1/2- -/-/- - 180'

Flavio 16 2/1/2/1/1 - -/- 1/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Floridante 14 2/1/1/-/2 - 2/2 2/-/2/2 -/-/- - 165'

Florindo 3 music lost -

G.Cesare 17 2/1/3/-/2 - (1)/4 2/1/2/2 1/-/- harp, thb., vdg. 220'

Giustuno 37 3/1/2/1/2 4 2/2 2+B/-/3/1 -/-/- - 180'

Imeneo 41 2/1-/-/2 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 120'

Lotario 26 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/-/2/2 -/-/- - 170'

Muzio 13 4/1/1/-/1 - 2/2 -/(1)/2/1 -/-/- - 90/200'

Nero 2 music lost -

Orlando 31 1/2/1/-/1 - -/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- 2 vlt. mar. 160'

Ottone 15 2/1/2/-/1 - -/- 1/-/2/2 -/-/- - 190'

Partenope 27 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- thb. 190'

Pastor fido 8a 3/-/2/-/1 4 -/- -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 120'

8b 1/-/1/-/- 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 40'

8c 2/-/2/1/1 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

Poro 28 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/1/2/1 1/-/ - 190'

Radamisto 12a 4/-/1/1/1 - 2/2 -1/2/2 1/-/1 - 140'

12b 4/1/-/-/2 - 2/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Riccardo I. 23 2/1/1/-/2 - 3*/2 1/B/2/1 -/-/- fl.picc., (2 chlx.) 180'

Rinaldo 7a 6/1/2/1/1 - 4*/- 2/-/2/1 1/-/- hpcd., flag. 180'

7b 5/2/1/1/2 - 1/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/- fl.picc. 200'

Rodelinda 19 1/1/2/1/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Rodrigo 5 4/-/1/1/- - -/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Scipione 20 3/-/1/1/1 - -/2 (2)/2/2/1 1/-/- - 150'

Serse 40 3/1/1/-/2 4 1/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 170'

Silla 10 4/2/-/-2 - 1/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 90'

Siroe 24 2/1/1/-/2 - -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 160'

Sosarme 30 1/1/3/1/1 - 2/2 -/-/2/1 1/-/- thb. 160'

Tamerlano 18 2/1/1/1/1 - -/- 2/2/2/1 -/-/- (2 crnt.) 210'

Teseo 9 5/-/2/-/1 4 2/- 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 155'

Tolomeo 25 2/1/1/-/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

 

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i liked that suzy q one we went to... that was cool.............lol you quoted it... i dont get it.....what did i miss by scrolling down??or am i just that blonde right now........ :headbang

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Now I think I have posted before that my favorite handel oipera is Xerxes - I was so disappointed that I missed seeing Parenthope this year at the Lyric -  what are other people's favorite Handel operas?

 

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL'S OPERAS

ACCORDING TO THE HWV

 

Senesino - Fr.Cuzzoni - G.Berenstadt

 

1 Almira (Der in Kronen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel)

3S (Almira, Bellante, Edilia)

3T, 2B (Fernando, Osman, Tabarco/ Consalvo, Raymondo)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., va., and vc. str. & b.c.

2 Nero (Die durch Blut und Mord erlangte Liebe)

music lost

3 Florindo (Der beglückte Florindo)

music lost

4 Daphne (Die verwandelte Daphne)

music lost

5 Rodrigo (Vincer si stesso è la maggior vittoria)

2S (Esilena, Florinda)

2S, A, T (Evanco*, Rodrigo14/ Fernando18// Giuliano)

2 rec., 2 ob., solo vl., str. & b.c.

6 Agrippina

2S, A (Agrippina, Poppea; Giunone)

S, 2A, 3B (Nerone22 / Narciso1, Ottone*// Claudio, Lesbo, Pallante)

2 trp., timp., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

7a Rinaldo (1711 version)

5S, M (Almirena, Armida, Donna, Sirene I & II; Goffredo)

S, 2A, T, B (Rinaldo16/ Eustazio21 [-], Mago13 // Araldo/ Argante)

4 trp., timp., flag., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo hpcd., solo vl., str. & b.c.

7b Rinaldo (1731 version)

4S, M (Almirena, Donna, Sirene I & II; Armida)

M, A, T, 2B (Rinaldo20/ Argante*// Goffredo/ Araldo, Mago)

trp., 2 hrn., fl. picc. (flag.), 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

8a Il pastor fido (1712 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla [A]; Dorinda)

S, A, B (Mirtillo22/ Silvio21 [s -> T]// Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8b Il pastor fido ("Terpsichore", prologue to the 1734 version)

S (Erato)

A (Apollo12)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

8c Il pastor fido (1734 version)

2S, A (Amarilli, Eurilla; Dorinda)

A, T, B (Mirtillo12// Silvio/ Tirenio)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

9 Teseo

4S (Agilea, Clizia, Fedra, Medea)

S, 2A, B (Teseo22/ Arcane*, Egeo21// Ministro di Minerva [orig. S])

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

10 Lucio Cornelio Silla

3S (Celia, Flavia, Metella)

S, 2M, B (Lepido22/ Claudio*, Silla21// Il Dio)

trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

11 Amadigi di Gaula

2S (Melissa, Oriana)

S, M, A (Orgando*/ Amadigi16/ Dardano*)

choir à 4; trp., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

12a Radamisto (April 1720 version)

S, A (Polissena; Zenobia)

3S, T, B (Fraarte5, Radamisto*, Tigrane*// Tridate/ Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

12b Radamisto (December 1720 version)

2S (Polissena, Zenobia)

2S, M, 2B (Fraarte*, Tigrane [A]8/ Radamisto20// Tridate, Farasmane)

2 trp., 2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

13 Muzio Scevola, Act 3 (Act 1 by F. Amadei, Act 2 by G.B. Bononcini)

2S, A (Clelia, Fidalma [-]/ Irene)

2S, M, B (Lucio Tarquinio* , Orazio8 [-]/ Muzio Scevola20// Larte Porsenna)

2 trp., 2 hrn.(, trv.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

14 Floridante

S, A (Rossane [orig. A]/ Elmira)

S, M, 2B (Timante5/ Floridante20// Coralbo, Oronte)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

15 Ottone, Re di Germania

2S, A (Gismonda [A], Teofane/ Matilda )

M, A, B (Ottone20/ Adalberto6 // Emireno)

rec., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

16 Flavio, Re de'Langobardi

S, A (Emilia/ Teodata)

S, M, A, T, B (Vitige* [A]/ Guido20/ Flavio6// Ugone / Lotario [T])

rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

17 Giulio Cesare in Egitto

S, A (Cleopatra/ Cornelia)

S, M, 2A, 2B (Sesto* [T]/ G.Cesare20/ Nireno9 [-], Tolomeo6// Achilla [A], Curio [-])

4 hrn., (trp., 1725), 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., solo vl., harp, vdg., thb., str. & b.c.

18 Tamerlano

2S (Asteria, Irene)

M, A, T, B (Andronico20/ Tamerlano17// Bajazet/ Leone)

(2 crnt.), 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

19 Rodelina, Regina de'Langobardi

S, A (Rodelinda/ Eduige)

M, A, T, B (Bertarido20/ Unulfo17// Grimoaldo/ Garibaldo)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

20 Scipione (Publio Cornelio Scipione)

2S (Armira [A], Berenice)

S, A, T, B (Lucejo20/ Scipione4 [T]// C. Lelio [A]/ Ernando)

2 hrn., (2 rec.), 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

21 Alessandro

2S (Rossane, Lisaura)

M, 2A, T, B (Alessandro20/ Cleone* [-], Tassile4// Leonato [-]/ Clito)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

22 Admeto, Re di Tessaglia

2S (Alceste, Antigona)

M, 2A, 3B (Admeto20/ Orindo*, Trasimede4// Ercole, Meraspe, voce: La Statua)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

23 Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra

2S (Costanza, Pulcheria)

M, A, 2B (Riccardo Primo20/ Oronte4// Berardo, Isacio)

3 trp. timp., 2 hrn., fl. picc., rec., B-trv., (2 chlx.), 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

24 Siroe, Re di Persia

2S (Emira, Laodice)

M, A, 2B (Siroe20/ Medarse4// Arasse, Cosroe)

2 ob., str. & b.c.

25 Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto

2S (Elisa, Seleuce)

M, A, B (Tolomeo20/ Alessandro4// Araspe)

2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

26 Lotario

S, A (Adelaide/ Matilde)

M, A, T, B (Lotario7/ Idelberto*// Berengario/ Clodomiro)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

27 Partenope

S, A (Partenope/ Rosmira)

M, A, T, B (Arsace7/ Arminio* // Emilio/ Ormonte [A])

trp., 2 hrn., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., thb., str. & b.c.

28 Poro, Re dell'Indie

S, A (Cleofide/ Erissena)

M, A, T, B (Poro20/ Gandarte*// Alessandro il Grande/ Timagene)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

29 Ezio

S, A (Fulvia/ Onoria)

M, A, T, B (Ezio20/ Valentiniano III.*//Massimo/ Varo)

trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., 2 bn., str. & b.c.

30 Sosarme, Re di Media

S, A (Elmira/ Erenice)

M, 2A, T, B (Sosarme20/ Argone11 , Melo*// Haliate / Altomaro)

2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., bn., thb., vl. soo, str. & b.c.

31 Orlando

S, M (Angelica/ Dorinda)

M, A, B (Medoro*/ Orlando20// Zoroastro)

2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., bn., 2 vlt. mar., str. & b.c.

32 Arianna in Creta

S, A (Arianna/ Carilda)

S, 2M, 2B (Alceste19/ Tauride*, Teseo12// Minos, Il Sonno)

2 hrn., trv., 2 ob., bn., str. & b.c.

33 Ariodante

2 S (Dalinda [orig. A], Ginevra)

M, A, 2T, B (Ariodante12/ Polinesso*//Lurcanio, Odoardo/ Il Re di Scozia)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 trv., 2 ob., bn., solo vl., str. & b.c.

34 Alcina

S, A (Alcina, Morgana [A]/ Bradamante)

t, M, T, B (Oberto#/ Ruggiero12 // Oronte/ Melisso)

choir à 5; 2 hrn., fl. picc, 2 rec. 2 ob., bn., solo vl., solo vc., str. & b.c.

35 Atalanta

S, A (Atalanta/ Irene)

S, T, 2B (Meleagro15// Arminta/ Mercurio, Nircandro)

choir à 4; 3 trp., timp., 2 hrn., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

36 Arminio

S, A (Tusnelda; Ramise)

S, M, A, T, B (Sigismondo15/ Arminio3/ Tullio* [orig. B]// Varo/ Segeste)

choir à 4; 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

37 Giustino

t, S, A (La Fortuna#/ Arianna/ Leocasta)

S, M, A, T, 2B (Anastasio15/ Giust.3/ Amancio* // Vitaliano/ Polidarte, Voce di dentro)

choir à 4; 2 trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., B-rec., ob. solo, 2 ob. bn., str. & b.c.

38 Berenice, Regina d'Egitto

S, A (Berenice/ Selene)

S, M, A, T, B (Alessandro15/ Demetrio3/ Arsace*// Fabio/ Aristoboldo)

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

39 Faramondo

S, M (Clotilde/ Rosimonda)

t, 2S, A, 2B (Childerico#/ Adolfo*, Faramondo10/ Gernando*// Gustavo, Teobaldo)

choir à 4; 2 hrn, trv., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

40 Serse

2S, A (Atalanta, Romilda/ Amastre)

S, M, 2B (Serse10/ Arsamene*// Ariodate [orig. S], Elviro[orig. A])

choir à 4; trp., 2 hrn., 2 rec., 2 ob., str. & b.c.

41 Imeneo

2S (Clomiri, Rosmene)

M, 2B (Tirinto2// Argenio, Imeneo [T])

choir à 4; 2 ob., str. & b.c.

42 Deidamia

2S (Deidamia, Nerea)

2S, 2B (Achille*, Ulisse2// Fenice, Lycomede)

choir à 4; 2 trp., timp., 2 hrn.., 2 ob., bn. (, lute), str. & b.c.

 

General remarks:

 

    * For the high male rôles the numbers refer to the castrato who sang the part at the first performance (*: female singer, #: boy soprano (treble) William Savage):

 

      1

      2

      3

      4

      5

      6

      7

      8

      9

      10

      11

      12

      13

      14

      15

      16

      17

      18

      19

      20

      21

      22 Albertini, Giuliano

      Andreoni, Giovanni Battista

      Annibali, Domenico

      Baldi, Antonio

      Benedetti (Benedetto Baldassari)

      Berenstadt,Gaetano

      Bernacchi, Antonio Maria

      Berselli, Matteo

      Bigonzi, -?-

      Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano)

      Campioli (Antonio Gualandi)

      Carestini, Giovanni

      Cassari, Giuseppe

      Frilli, Stefano

      Gizziello (Gioacchino Conti)

      Nicolini (Nicolo Grimaldi)

      Pacini, Andrea

      Perini, Giuseppe

      Scalzi, Carlo

      Senesino (Francesco Bernardi)

      Valentini (Valentino Urbani)

      Valeriano(Valeriano Pellegrini) 6

      41, 42

      36, 37, 38

      20 - 25

      12a

      15, 16, 17

      26, 27

      12b, 13, 14

      17

      39, 40

      30

      8b, 8c, 32, 33, 34

      7a

      5

      35, 36, 37, 38

      7a, 11

      18, 19

      5

      32

      7b, 12b, 13 - 25, 28 - 31

      7a, 8a, 9, 10

      6, 8a, 9, 10

      Senesino

 

Handel often alternated between singers of both genders, depending on availability. Changes of the range at later performances are indicated in brackets ([-]: rôle cut). In some cases the range changed already before the first performance. Here, the range in the score is indicated by "orig.".

 

    * In most cases the choir may be sung by the soloists.

    * Silent rôles are not contained in the list.

    * Instruments in brackets were used in some performances only and may be omitted.

    * abbrevations: thb.: theorbo (bass lute), hpcd.: harpsichord, vdg.: viola da gamba (viol)

 

Comments about some instruments (in brackets: act, scene):

 

    * flauto piccolo and flageolett: sopranino recorders (they differ in the number of holes)

          o Rinaldo (I, 6): "Augeletti chi cantate" (Almirena)

    o Alcina (III, 11): Tamburino

    * cornetto:

    o Tamerlano (II, 6): "Parche mi nasca in seno" (Irene), Handel wrote an alternative version of this aria for traverse flutes

    * traversa bassa: perhaps not a bass instrument, the name merely indicates that the instrument transposes downwards

    o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Morte vieni" (Costanza)

    * chalumeau: precursor of the clarinet

    o Riccardo I. (III, 2): "Quando non vedo" (Pulcheria), this aria is the alternative version for "Quell'innocente" (with 2 oboes)

    * violetta marina: probably a viola d'amore with 7+14 strings

    o Orlando (III, 8): "Gia l'ebro mio ciglio" (Orlando)

    * basso de' flauti: a bass recorder

    o Giustino (I, 4): "Pùo ben nascer" (Giustino)

 

The operas and their scoring (with str. & b.c.) in alphabetical order:

 

Opera HWV soli and choir brass woodw. solo str. other instr. approx.

duration

S/M/A/T/B ch. tr./hr. rc./tr./ob./bn. vl./va./vc.

Admeto 22 2/1/2/-/3 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 210'

Agrippina 6 3/-3/-/3 - 2*/- 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 180'

Alcina 34 3/1/1/1/1 5 -/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/1 fl.picc 180'

Alessandro 21 2/1/2/1/1 4 2/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Almira 1 3/-/-/3/2 4 3*/- 2/-/2/1 1/1/1 - 170'

Amadigi 11 3/1/1/-/- 4 1/- 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Arianna 32 2/2/1/-/2 - -/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/ - 150'

Ariodante 33 2/1/1/2/1 4 2/2 2/2/2/1 -/-/- - 200'

Arminio 36 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Atalanta 35 2/-/1/1/2 4 3*/2 -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Berenice 38 2/1/2/1/1 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 140'

Daphne 4 music lost -

Deidamia 42 4/-/-/-/2 4 2*/2 -/-/2/1 -/-/- (lute) 180'

Ezio 29 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 130'

Faramondo 39 4/1/1/-/2 4 -/2 -/1/2- -/-/- - 180'

Flavio 16 2/1/2/1/1 - -/- 1/1/2/1 -/-/- - 160'

Floridante 14 2/1/1/-/2 - 2/2 2/-/2/2 -/-/- - 165'

Florindo 3 music lost -

G.Cesare 17 2/1/3/-/2 - (1)/4 2/1/2/2 1/-/- harp, thb., vdg. 220'

Giustuno 37 3/1/2/1/2 4 2/2 2+B/-/3/1 -/-/- - 180'

Imeneo 41 2/1-/-/2 4 -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 120'

Lotario 26 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/-/2/2 -/-/- - 170'

Muzio 13 4/1/1/-/1 - 2/2 -/(1)/2/1 -/-/- - 90/200'

Nero 2 music lost -

Orlando 31 1/2/1/-/1 - -/2 2/-/2/1 -/-/- 2 vlt. mar. 160'

Ottone 15 2/1/2/-/1 - -/- 1/-/2/2 -/-/- - 190'

Partenope 27 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- thb. 190'

Pastor fido 8a 3/-/2/-/1 4 -/- -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 120'

8b 1/-/1/-/- 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 40'

8c 2/-/2/1/1 4 -/2 -/2/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

Poro 28 1/1/2/1/1 - 1/2 2/1/2/1 1/-/ - 190'

Radamisto 12a 4/-/1/1/1 - 2/2 -1/2/2 1/-/1 - 140'

12b 4/1/-/-/2 - 2/2 -/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Riccardo I. 23 2/1/1/-/2 - 3*/2 1/B/2/1 -/-/- fl.picc., (2 chlx.) 180'

Rinaldo 7a 6/1/2/1/1 - 4*/- 2/-/2/1 1/-/- hpcd., flag. 180'

7b 5/2/1/1/2 - 1/2 2/-/2/1 1/-/- fl.picc. 200'

Rodelinda 19 1/1/2/1/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 170'

Rodrigo 5 4/-/1/1/- - -/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 180'

Scipione 20 3/-/1/1/1 - -/2 (2)/2/2/1 1/-/- - 150'

Serse 40 3/1/1/-/2 4 1/2 2/-/2/- -/-/- - 170'

Silla 10 4/2/-/-2 - 1/- 2/-/2/1 -/-/- - 90'

Siroe 24 2/1/1/-/2 - -/- -/-/2/- -/-/- - 160'

Sosarme 30 1/1/3/1/1 - 2/2 -/-/2/1 1/-/- thb. 160'

Tamerlano 18 2/1/1/1/1 - -/- 2/2/2/1 -/-/- (2 crnt.) 210'

Teseo 9 5/-/2/-/1 4 2/- 2/2/2/2 -/-/- - 155'

Tolomeo 25 2/1/1/-/1 - -/2 2/1/2/1 -/-/- - 150'

 

Please send comments, suggestions, additions to Andreas Kopp (kopp@osf1.mpae.gwdg.de)

 

Last modified: July 17, 1998

 

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# to the opera part of Brad Leissa's Handel page

I yearn for getting smacked with a wet violin to the sounds of Aida.

that can be arranged

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