Michele Carafa

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Michele Carafa

Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri.

Selected operas

Gabriella di Vergy (1816)
Berenice in Siria (1818)
Elisabetta in Derbyshire ossia Il castello di Fotheringhay (Elizabeth (1st) in Derbyshire, or Fotheringay Castle), (December 1818). Based on Friedrich Schiller's play (1802)^[1]
I due Figaro (1820)
Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans (1821)
Le solitaire (1822)
Le valet de chambre (1823)
Il sonnambulo (1824)
La belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) (1825)
Masaniello (1828)
Le nozze di Lammermoor (1829)
La prison d'Édimbourg (1833)

Notes

Sources

Warrack, John and Ewan West, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, OUP, 1992 ISBN 0-19-869164-5
Weatherson, Alexander, "Queen of dissent: Mary Stuart and the opera in her honour by Carlo Coccia", Donizetti Society (London), 2001

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61792392 LCCN: n85027340 ISNI: 0000 0001 2026 9865 GND: 116451793 BNF: cb14576418n ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\162260

Persondata
Name	Carafa, Michele
Alternative names	Carafa di Colobrano, Michele Enrico
Short description	Italian opera composer
Date of birth	17 November 1787
Place of birth	Naples
Date of death	26 July 1872
Place of death

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