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1801–52, Italian Salvadore Cammarano wrote several plays before producing his first libretto in 1834. This so impressed the management at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples that Cammarano was appointed house poet in 1835. That same year, he wrote the libretto for Lucia di Lammermoor, composed by his friend Gaetano Donizetti. Cammarano and Donizetti worked on many more ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

opera and may have been influenced by a similar character in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète (‘The Prophet’, 1849), which premiered in Paris. Composed: 1851–52 Premiered: 1853, Rome Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare, after Antonio García Gutiérrez Act I Count di Luna waits beneath the window of his love Leonora. Meanwhile, Ferrando, the captain of the ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

United States and even Indonesia and Trinidad; Lucia was the first opera to be seen on the Caribbean island in 1844. Composed: 1835 Premiered: 1835, Naples Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Sir Walter Scott Act I In the grounds of Lammermoor Castle, Normanno leads a group of guards searching for an intruder. Enrico enters and laments his sister ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of 1830, which swept away the old Bourbon monarchy – and everyone, even musicians, who had served it. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Salvadore Cammarano | Early Romantic | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

text himself and merely let the librettist put it into verse; what he wanted in the early operas was a series of dramatic situations and confrontations. Temistocle Solera and Salvadore Cammarano provided exactly that. Solera, after revising the text of Oberto, wrote Nabucco, I Lombardi, Giovanna d’Arco and Attila. Cammarano contributed Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

early compositions this was a dramatic series of confrontations, perfectly set by Temistocle Solera in Nabucco, I Lombardi, Giovanna d’Arco and Attila, and set by Salvadore Cammarano in Luisa Miller, the celebrated Il trovatore and others. Verdi worked more comfortably with Francesco Maria Piave (1810–76), a personal friend who was responsible for Ernani, I due ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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