Ricciardo e Zoraide

Ricciardo e Zoraide (Ricciardo and Zoraide) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa. The text is based on cantos XIV and XV of Il Ricciardetto, an epic poem by Niccolò Forteguerri.[1]

Gioachino Rossini

Performance history

Ricciardo e Zoraide was first performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 3 December 1818. It continued to be performed until 1846 but fell out of favor afterwards and was not performed in public again until its revival at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival in 1990 [2]. The Rossini Opera Festival featured a new production of the opera in 2018 [3][4]. Among other performances, the opera received a production at the Rossini in Wildbad festival in 2013 [5].

Roles
Role Voice type Premiere Cast, 3 December 1818
(Conductor: Nicola Festa )
Agorante, King of Nubia, infatuated with Zoraide tenor Andrea Nozzari
Zomira, wife of Agorante contralto Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni
Zamorre, confidant of Agorante tenor Gaetano Chizzola
Elmira, confidant of Zomira mezzo-soprano Raffaella de Bernardis
Ircano, a Middle Eastern prince bass Michele Benedetti
Zoraide, daughter of Ircano, in love with Ricciardo soprano Isabella Colbran
Ricciardo, a Christian paladin knight, in love with Zoraide tenor Giovanni David
Fatima, confidant of Zoraide mezzo-soprano Maria Manzi
Ernesto, friend of Ricciardo, Christian camp ambassador, tenor Giuseppe Ciccimarra

Synopsis
Place: the city of Dongola in ancient Nubia.
Time: The time of the Crusades

The Nubian King Agorante, who is infatuated with Zoraide, has defeated her father, Ircano and captured her. Ricciardo, a Christian knight and Zoraide's lover, accompanies an emissary to plead for her release. Agorante's jealous wife, Zomira, arranges the capture of Ricciardo as well and plots to have the young lovers executed to protect her position as Queen. The opera ends with an army of Christian knights rescuing Ricciardo and Zoraide. Ricciardo spares Agorante's life.

Recordings
Year Cast:
Agorante, Zoraide, Ricciardo, Zomira, Ircano		 Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra		 Label:[6]
1990 Bruce Ford,
June Anderson,
William Matteuzzi,
Gloria Scalchi,
Giovanni Furlanetto		 Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Prague Philharmonic Chorus VHS Video: Bel Canto Society
Cat: #619
1995 Bruce Ford,
Nelly Miricioiu,
William Matteuzzi,
Della Jones,
Alastair Miles		 David Parry,
Orchestra of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir		 Audio CD: Opera Rara
Cat: ORC 14
2018 Randall Bills,
Alessandra Marianelli,
Maxim Mironov,
Silvia Beltrami,
Nahuel di Pierro		 José Miguel Pérez-Sierra,
Virtuosi Brunensis and the Camerata Bach Choir of Poznan		 Audio CD: Naxos Records
Cat:8 660419-21|
2019 Sergey Romanovsky,
Pretty Yende,
Juan Diego Flórez,
Victoria Yarovaya,
Nicola Ulivieri		 Giacomo Sagripanti,
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI,
Marshall Pynkoski, stage director		 DVD:C Major
Cat: 752704
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References

Notes

  1. Richard Osborne, "Ricciardo e Zoraide," Grove Music Online (article revised 2002), accessed 13 May 2019.
  2. "ROSSINI Ricciardo e Zoraide (Pérez-Sierra)". www.gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. "Rossini Opera Festival Program 2018". Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  4. "New Production of Ricciardo e Zoraide for Rossini Opera Festival". Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. "Ricciardo e Zoraide - Bad Wildbad". www.forumopera.com. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  6. Recordings of Ricciardo e Zoraide on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

Sources

  • Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Ricciardo e Zoraide, 3 December 1818". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  • Farr, Robert, Recording review: Ricciardo e Zoraide, Opera Rara, Music Web International.
  • Gossett, Philip; Brauner, Patricia (2001), "Ricciardo e Zoraide" in Holden, Amanda (ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4
  • Osborne, Charles (1994), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, London: Methuen; Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0931340713
  • Osborne, Richard (1990), Rossini, Ithaca, New York: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-088-5
  • Osborne, Richard (1998), Ricciardo e Zoraide, in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. Three, p. 1312. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-333-73432-7 ISBN 1-56159-228-5
  • Osborne, Richard (2018), Recording review: Rossini Ricciardo e Zoraide, Gramophone (magazine).
  • Servadio, Gaia (2003), Rossini, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7867-1195-7
  • Steen, Michael and Richard Osborne, The Lives and Times of the Great Composers: His Life and Works, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 271–278. ISBN 0-19-518129-8
  • Toye, Francis (re-issue 1987), Rossini: The Man and His Music, Dover Publications, 1987. ISBN 0486253961 ISBN 0-486-25396-1
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