Oberto (opera)

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Operas by Giuseppe Verdi

Oberto (1839)
Un giorno di regno (1840)
Nabucco (1842)
I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843)
Ernani (1844)
I due Foscari (1844)
Giovanna d'Arco (1845)
Alzira (1845)
Attila (1846)
Macbeth (1847)
I masnadieri (1847)
Jérusalem (1847)
Il corsaro (1848)
La battaglia di Legnano (1849)
Luisa Miller (1849)
Stiffelio (1850)
Rigoletto (1851)
Il trovatore (1853)
La traviata (1853)
Les vêpres siciliennes (1855)
Simon Boccanegra (1857)
Aroldo (1857)
Un ballo in maschera (1859)
La forza del destino (1862)
Don Carlos (1867)
Aida (1871)
Otello (1887)
Falstaff (1893)
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Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on a libretto by Antonio Piazza. It was Verdi's first opera and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on November 17, 1839. The British premiere did not take place until February 1982, at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.

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[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast,
November 17, 1839[1]
(Conductor: - )
Cuniza, sister of Ezzelino da Romano mezzo-soprano Mary Shaw
Imelda, her confident mezzo-soprano Marietta Sacchi
Riccardo, Count of Salinguerra tenor Lorenzo Salvi
Oberto, Count of San Bonifacio bass Ignazio Marini
Leonora, his daughter soprano Antonietta Ranieri-Marini
Lords, ladies, vassals

[edit] Noted arias

  • "Son fra voi! Già sorto è il giorno...Già parmi udire il fremito" - Riccardo in Act I, Scene I
  • "Sotto il paterno tetto...Oh potessi nel mio core" - Leonora in Act I, Scene I
  • "L'orror del tradimento...M tu superbo giovane" - Oberto in Act I, Scene II
  • "Parmi che al fin quest' anima...Da tanta gioia assorta" - Cuniza in Act I, Scene II
  • "Oh, chi torna l'ardente pensiero?...Più che i vezzi e lo splendore" - Cuniza in Act II, Scene I
  • "Ciel che feci?" - Riccardo in Act II, Scene II

[edit] Selected recordings

Year Cast
(Oberto, Leonora, Cuniza, Riccardo)		 Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra		 Label
1989 Rolando Panerai,
Ghena Dimitrova,
Ruza Baldani,
Carlo Bergonzi		 Lamberto Gardelli,
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Chorus of Bavarian Radio		 Audio CD: Orpheus
ASIN: B00000598O
1997 Samuel Ramey,
Maria Guleghina,
Violetta Urmana,
Stuart Neil		 Neville Mariner,
Academy of St Martin in the Fields		 Audio CD: Philips
Cat: 454 472-2
2007 Ildar Abdrazakov,
Evelyn Herlitzuis,
Marianne Cornetti,
Carlo Ventre		 Yves Abel,
Orquestra Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias,
Chorus of Opéra de Bilbao		 DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OA 0982 D

[edit] See also

The historical Cunizza da Romano, whose life was as at least as interesting as this fictionalised account.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ List of singers taken from Budden, Julian: The Operas of Verdi (Cassell), vol 1, p. 44.

[edit] External links

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