Verdi’s four-act opera Ernani, which has been called his ‘most romantic’ work, was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 9 March 1844. An immediate success, it was based on the tragedy Hernani by the French writer Victor Hugo. Politically, the treatment of the subject was far more overt than Nabucco, featuring a ...
opera world and Pacini found himself eclipsed. Piave, too, was aware of the change at the top, and had already written his first libretto for Verdi, Ernani, which premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1844. This was followed by I due Foscari, Macbeth, Il corsaro, Stiffelio (plus its revision as ...
1835–1900, German The German baritone Franz Betz made his debut in Hanover in 1856, singing the part of Heinrich in Wagner’s Lohengrin. Three years later, he was at the Hofoper in Berlin as Don Carlo in Verdi’s Ernani. He also sang Don Giovanni in Mozart’s opera, Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida and the title roles in Hans Heiling ...
village, Martinelli scaled the heights of operatic fame, becoming Caruso’s successor in verismo repertoire at the Met. After making his operatic debut in the title role of Verdi’s Ernani, he achieved his breakthrough when engaged by Puccini to sing Dick Johnson in the 1911 European premiere of La fanciulla del West. In 1913, Martinelli joined the Met ...
, marked him down as a potential revolutionary. Verdi’s long and fractious involvement in censorship was at least partly the result of these suspicions. The Cream of his Contemporaries Verdi’s Ernani was another brilliant success; he was deluged with commissions and entered what he called his anni di galera – his ‘galley years’, in which he composed 16 operas in 11 ...
La Scala with I Lombardi alla prima Crociata (‘The Lombards at the First Crusade’). Asked to write an opera for the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, he obliged with Ernani (1844), based on a play by Victor Hugo that had caused a scandal in Paris. This, one of the better products of the Galley Years, proved to be ...
National Opera 1962–65. He sang Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at the New York City Opera in 1965, Maurizio in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968, Verdi’s Ernani at La Scala, Milan, in 1969, and Puccini’s Cavaradossi at Covent Garden in 1971. He has sung Verdi’s Otello on stage, on film and three times ...
1877–1953 Italian baritone Ruffo sang for one season only at Covent Garden, before appearing at La Scala, Milan 1903–04, as Verdi’s Rigoletto. His US debut was in 1912; he first sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1922. His repertory included Don Carlo (Ernani), Tonio (Pagliacci), Rossini’s Figaro and Ambroise Thomas’s (1811–96) Hamlet. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical ...
at least 21 operas subsequently based on this novel. Many more Hugo stories were turned into operas, notably by Verdi, who used Hugo’s Hernani (1830) for his opera Ernani, which he composed in 1844, and his Le roi s’amuse for Rigoletto. Introduction | High Romantic | Opera Personalities | Amalie Materna | High Romantic | Opera ...
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 Foscari, Macbeth, Il corsaro, Stiffelio, Rigoletto, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra and La forza del destino. Another librettist who did not give ...
Following the social and political upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Europe enjoyed a short period of relative stability with Napoleon’s exile, the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France and the establishment of the Vienna Peace Settlement in 1815. However, in the early 1820s a number of minor revolts broke out in Naples and ...
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