Temistocle Solera
Temistocle Solera (December 25, 1815 – April 21, 1878) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
He was born at Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughout his life he actively participated in anti-Austrian resistance. At one point, he was incarcerated for his activities. He completed several literary works, including the novel Michelino, his style influenced by Alessandro Manzoni. He then found work as a librettist; his collaboration with the composer Giuseppe Verdi began in 1839 and lasted for a few years.[1]
Solera then found work as the impresario for the Royal Theatre in Madrid. He died in Milan in 1878.[1]
List of major works
Composer
- Ildegonda (1840)
- Il contadino d'Agleiate (1841; rev. as La fanciulla di Castelguelfo in 1842)
- Genio e sventura (1843)
- La hermana de Pelayo (1845)[2] (Pelayo is a Spanish national hero, the leader of Christian resistance in the Cantabrian mountains against the Arab invasion in the early eighth century)
Librettist
- Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (Giuseppe Verdi, 1839)
- Galeotto Manfredi (Hermann; 1842)
- Nabucco (Giuseppe Verdi, 1842)
- I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Giuseppe Verdi, 1843)
- Giovanna d'Arco (Giuseppe Verdi, 1845)
- Attila (Giuseppe Verdi, 1846)
- La conquista di Granata (Emilio Arrieta, 1850)
- La fanciulla delle Asturie (B. Secchi; 1856)
- Sordello (A. Buzzi; 1856)
- Pergolese (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, 1857)
- Vasconcello (A. Villanis; 1858)
- Una notte di festa (A. Villanis; 1859)
- L'espiazione (Achille Peri, 1861)
- Zilia (Gaspar Villate, 1877)
References
- ^ a b O'Grady, Dierdre. The last troubadours: poetic drama in Italian opera 1597-1887. (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991). 214.
- ^ (Advert of performance at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona, in Diario de Barcelona, 8 January 1853)
External links
- OperaGlass
- Loreta de Stasio y José María Nadal. "Sobre el libreto de La conquista di Granata, de Temistocle Solera". Publicado en Mundoclasico.com (ISSN 1886-0605) el 7 July 2006
- Mundoclasico.com
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December 25, 1815 |
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April 21, 1878 |
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