Gianni di Parigi

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Gianni di Parigi is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1839) from a libretto by Felice Romani which had been previously used by Morlacchi (1818) for an opera of the same name. It is derived from Jean de Paris, an opera by François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1812) with libretto by Claude Godard d’Aucourt de Saint-Just.

It received its first performance on the 10 September 1839 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

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Premiere, September 10, 1839
Princess of Navarra soprano Antonietta Ranieri Marini
Il gran siniscalco bass Ignazio Marini
Gianni di Parigi tenor Lorenzo Salvi
Pedrigo bass Agostino Rovere
Lorezza, his daughter mezzo-soprano Marietta Sacchi
Oliviero, a page contralto Felicita Baillou-Hillaret
Followers of the prince and of Gianni, waiters

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