Caterina Cornaro (opera)

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Caterina Cornaro is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchèro wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre (1841). It premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on January 18, 1844.

Contents 1 Roles 2 Synopsis 3 Recording 4 External link

[edit] Roles

		Premiere, January 1, 1844
Caterina Cornaro	soprano	Fanny Goldberg
Matilde, Caterina's friend	mezzo-soprano	Anna Salvetti
Geraldo	tenor	Gaetano Fraschini
Lusignano, King of Cyprus	baritone	Filippo Coletti
Mocenigo, ambassador of Venice	bass	Nicola Benevento
Andrea Cornaro, Caterina's father	bass	Marco Arati
Srozzi, head of the Sgherri	tenor	Anafesto Rossi
A knight of the King	tenor	Domenico Ceci

[edit] Synopsis

[edit] Recording

• Carlo Felice Cillario conducting at Covent Garden with Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Anne Edwards, Maurizio Mazzieri, Lorenzo Saccomani, Enrique Serra, Neville Williams, 2001 (Opera d'Oro)

[edit] External link

• Libretto (Italian)