Giulietta e Romeo (Zingarelli)
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Giulietta e Romeo is a dramma per musica by composer Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli with an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa after the 1530 novella of the same name by Luigi Da Porto and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The opera premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 30 January 1796.
Giulietta e Romeo was composed by Zingarelli in only eight days and it is considered by many scholars to be his best work. The opera remained a part of the Italian repertory well into the nineteenth century and the role of Romeo was a favourite vehicle for Maria Malibran until c. 1830.[1]
Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 30 January 1796[2] Conductor: Luigi De Baillou |
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Everardo Capellio | tenor | Adamo Bianchi |
Giulietta | mezzo-soprano/contralto | Giuseppina Grassini |
Romeo Montecchio | soprano castrato | Girolamo Crescentini |
Teobaldo | tenor | Gaetano De Paoli |
Gilberto | soprano castrato | Angelo Monanni "Manzoletti" |
Matilde | soprano | Carolina Dinand |
Members of the Capellio and Montecchio families |
References
- ^ Original libretto for Manuel García family's American tour: Romeo and Giulietta; A Serious Opera. In Three Acts. As Performed at the New-York Theatre, New York, E. M. Murden (for the New-York Theatre), 1826; libretto: Romeo e Giulietta, London, Mallet, date not reported (cited at ItalianOpera.org). In both librettos Malibran appears as Romeo. Cf. also: (in Italian) I teatri – Giornale drammatico musicale e coreografico, Milan, Ferrario, 1828, Volume 2, Part. 1, p. 218
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Giulietta e Romeo, 30 January 1796". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
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