I fuorusciti di Firenze
I fuorusciti di Firenze (The Exiles of Florence) is an opera semiseria in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer. The libretto was by Angelo Anelli. The work is a form of 'rescue opera'.
| Ferdinando Paer |
|---|
 |
|
Operas
|
The opera was first performed at the Hoftheater in Dresden on 27 November 1802.
Roles
| Cast | Voice type | Premiere cast, 27 November 1802 |
|---|---|---|
| Isabella, Princess of Florence | soprano | |
| Umberto degli Ardinghelli, a bandit | bass-baritone | |
| Edoardo de Liggozzi, Isabella's husband | tenor | |
| Gianni, Edoardo's servant | bass | |
| Cecchina, a peasant girl | soprano | |
| Lena, a peasant girl | soprano | |
Synopsis
The bandit Umberto holds Isabella prisoner, and her husband Edoardo attempts unsuccessfully to rescue her. Eventually Isabella is revealed as Umberto's daughter.
Sources
- Amadeus Almanac for 27 November 1802, accessed 26 October 2009
- Balthazar, Scott L (1992), "Fuorusciti di Firenze, I" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
gollark: Observe, this America map.
gollark: The thing could plausibly be doing… antialiasing or whatever it's called, where if something is only partly within whatever you're drawing it's only partly shaded.
gollark: I don't know digital signal processing, so my code just does it in the very naive way I thought of after failing to get a FFT to work.
gollark: That was not it. Or at least not only it.
gollark: Oh wait. It *should* be sin and not cos. Maybe that's it?
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.