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Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping first one and then another drama by Hugo into ...
Hernani (full title: Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan) is a drama in rhyming alexandrines by the French romantic author Victor Hugo. The title originates from Hernani , a Spanish town in the Southern Basque Country , where Hugo's mother and her three children stopped on their way to General Hugo's place of residence.
This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in opera or operetta. Historical accuracy in such works has often been subject to the imperatives of dramatic presentation. Consequently, in many cases: historical characters appear alongside fictional characters
Hernani was ready to be performed on the stage of the Théâtre-Français, by the best actors in the company. As was customary at the time, the roles were cast without taking into account the relationship between the age of the actors and the supposed age of the characters. Thus, Firmin, aged 46, would play Hernani, who was supposed to be 20.
The Gilded Age Cast Relive the Opera Wars Emilio Madrid. Tannhauser, a German Opera by Richard Wagner, four-hours in length with three intermissions, follows the story of a man facing a moral ...
Ernani Braga (1888-1948), Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor; Ernani Bernardi (1911-2006), American big-band musician and politician; Ernani Cuenco (1936-1988), Filipino composer, music director and music teacher
November 13 – Gaetano Donizetti's next-to-last opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera. December 26 – Following the première of his last opera, Hernani, Alberto Mazzucato retires from composing in order to become a full-time music teacher. Approximate date – Euphonium invented. August Conradi becomes organist of the ...
The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing. Singers who have recorded opera arias or sung them in concert but have never performed in an opera are not included in this list. Singers are sorted by their year of birth.