Olivo e Pasquale

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Olivo e Pasquale (Olivo and Pasquale) is a melodramma giocoso, a romantic comedy opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Jacopo Ferretti wrote the Italian libretto after Simeone Antonio Sografi's play.

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[edit] Performance history

It premiered on January 7, 1827 at the Teatro Valle, Rome.

[edit] Roles

Premiere, January 7, 1827
Olivo baritone Domenico Cosselli
Pasquale bass Giuseppe Frezzolini
Isabella, daughter of Olivo soprano Emilia Bonini
Camillo contralto Anna Scudellari Cosselli
Matilde, Isabella's maid mezzo-soprano Agnese Loyselet
Monsieur le Bross, merchant of Cadice tenor Giovanni Battista Verger
Columella, a poor traveller buffo Luigi Garofalo
Diego, servant in the house of two siblings baritone Stanislao PrĂ²
Waiters, servants, young people

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[edit] Recordings

  • Bruno Rigacci conducting at the Teatro dei Differenti, Lucca, Italy with John del Carlo, Giovanni Ovidio Mastino, Gastone Sarti, Estelle Maria Gibbs, Sabrina Bizzo, Enrico Bonelli, Luana Pellegrineschi, Augusto Faggioli, 1980 (Bongiovanni)


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