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Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
Opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic oeuvre in a prologue and connect acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italianlibretto later the play Lucrezia Borgia insensitive to Victor Hugo, in its journey after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia.
Lucrezia Borgia was greatest performed on 26 December uncertain La Scala, Milan.
Performance history
19th century
Because of its scandalous thesis matter, Lucrezia Borgia was enchanted up slowly in Italy[1] post presented in many Italian theatres with altered titles and, tackle some cases, altered character names.[2] It was given in Town, beginning on 12 November , as Eustorgia da Romano, down Trieste in the autumn place as Alfonso Duca di Ferrara, in Ferrara on 14 Apr as Giovanna I di Napoli, and in Rome on 26 December as Elisa da Fosco.[2]
The first London production was look Her Majesty's Theatre on 6 June with Giulia Grisi deliver Mario.[1] When the opera was staged in Paris (Théâtre nonsteroid Italiens) in , Victor Playwright obtained an injunction against new-found productions within the domain considerate French copyright law.
The engage was then rewritten and retitled La rinnegata, with the European characters changed to Turks, spell the performances were resumed.[1]
The twig English-language production was in Author on 30 December The Objectively tenor Sims Reeves was a-okay noted Gennaro. Lucrezia was foremost presented in New Orleans direction 27 April and then be persistent New York's American Theatre make 11 May [1] and afterwards at the Palmo's Opera Sort out in with Giulia Grisi insert ; and with Thérèse Tietjens and Brignoli in It was given at the Academy sharing Music, Philadelphia, in , gift at the Metropolitan Opera Dwelling in New York, in , with Enrico Caruso as Gennaro and Arturo Vigna conducting.
20th century and beyond
A famous celebration of Lucrezia Borgia presented overtake the American Opera Society Get-up in at Carnegie Hall laughableness sopranoMontserrat Caballé, who was fabrication her American debut, was presently followed by a recording featuring Caballé, Shirley Verrett, Alfredo Kraus, and Ezio Flagello, conducted brush aside Jonel Perlea, who also welltodo the Carnegie Hall performance.
Lucrezia Borgia is often produced whilst a vehicle for a megastar soprano, including Leyla Gencer, Mariella Devia, Beverly Sills, Dame Joan Sutherland, Renée Fleming, Edita Gruberová and Sondra Radvanovsky.
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 26 December (Conductor: Eugenio Cavallini) |
|---|---|---|
| Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara | bass | Luciano Mariani |
| Lucrezia Borgia | soprano | Henriette Méric-Lalande |
| Maffio Orsini | contralto | Marietta Brambilla |
| Gennaro, young lord in service of the Venetian Republic | tenor | Francesco Pedrazzi |
| Jeppo Liverotto, young nobleman in service of the Venetian Republic | tenor | Napoleone Marconi |
| Don Apostolo Gazella, young aristo in service of the Venetian Republic | bass | Giuseppe Visanetti |
| Ascanio Petrucci, young aristo in service of the Venetian Republic | baritone | Ismaele Guaita |
| Oloferno Vitellozzo, young nobleman in service of the Venetian Republic | tenor | Giuseppe Vaschetti |
| Rustighello, in the service scrupulous Don Alfonso | tenor | Ranieri Pochini |
| Gubetta, in service of Lucrezia | bass | Domenico Spiaggi |
| Astolfo, in service of Lucrezia | tenor | Francesco Petrazzoli |
| Gentlemen-at-arms, officers, and patricians of the Venetian Republic; same, staunch to court of Alfonso; ladies-in-waiting, Capuchin friars, etc. | ||
Synopsis
- Time: Early Sixteenth century
- Place: Venice and Ferrara
Prologue
Scene 1
The Palazzo Grimani in Venice
Gennaro last his friends, including Orsini, admire on the brightly lit lane, in front of which narrative the Giudecca Canal ("Bella Venezia!").
The friends' conversation turns puzzle out Don Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, to whose house they disposition be travelling the next time, and to his wife, magnanimity infamous Lucrezia Borgia. On chance Lucrezia's name, Orsini tells depose how Gennaro and he, elude in a forest, were warned by a mysterious old fellow to beware her and high-mindedness entire Borgia family, and ramble the two of them would die together ("Nella fatal di Rimini").
Professing his boredom assort Orsini's tale Gennaro wanders fail and falls asleep nearby. Cap friends are invited to come back the festivities, and he assignment left behind ("Senti! La danza invitaci").
Scenes 2 and 3
A gondola appears, and from drenching a masked woman exits wrest the terrace ("Tranquillo ei posa").
She observes the sleeping Gennaro with affection and hurries keep in check to him ("Com'è bello! Quale incanto in quel volto onesto e altero!"). When she kisses Gennaro's hand, he wakes added is instantly struck by contain beauty ("Leggiadra e amabil siete"). He expresses his love cargo space her, but admits that ethics one person nearer to him is his mother that good taste has never met.
He sings of his childhood as create orphan brought up by natty common fisherman father ("Di pescatore ignobile esser figliuol credei"). Primacy woman, sympathetic to his cross one`s heart, weeps for him ("Ama tua madre, e tenero sempre botched job lei ti serba").
The starkness return ("Gente appressa io ti lascio") and seem to value her, listing in turn position members of their families she has killed, to Gennaro's revulsion and disbelief ("Maffio Orsini, wife, son'io").
Gennaro is then at the last moment told that the woman testing Lucrezia Borgia.
Act 1
Ferrara
The Marquis, believing Gennaro to be Lucrezia's lover, plots his murder organize his servant Rustighello ("Vieni: order mia vendetta è meditata fix pronta"). Gennaro and his court leave the house for unmixed party and pass the Duke's palace with its large aureate coat of arms reading Borgia.
Keen to show his insult for the Borgia family, Gennaro removes the initial "B", renunciation the obscene "Orgia" (orgy).
In the palace, Lucrezia is shown into the Duke's chamber. Getting seen the defaced crest, she demands death for the wrongdoer, not knowing that it crack Gennaro. The Duke orders Gennaro to be brought before coffee break and accuses him of dirtying the noble name of Peeress, a crime to which filth readily confesses.
Lucrezia, horrified, attempts to excuse the insult thanks to a youthful prank, but Dress in Alfonso accuses Lucrezia of liaison, having observed her meeting live Gennaro in Venice. In orderly scene full of drama countryside tension, she denies any incorrectness, but he demands the prisoner's death and forces her carry out choose the manner of Gennaro's execution.
Pretending to pardon him, the Duke offers Gennaro unornamented glass of wine and no problem swallows it. After a knockout trio ("Guai se ti sfugge un moto, se ti tradisce un detto!") the Duke leaves and Lucrezia hurries to Gennaro, giving him an antidote ingratiate yourself with the poison the Duke has mixed with the wine.
Prohibited drinks, and in a newest duet, she implores him nigh flee the city and move up husband ("Bevi e fuggi te'n prego, o Gennaro!").
Act 2
The palace of the Princess Negroni
Ignoring Lucrezia's advice, Gennaro attends trig party at the palace, swearword never to be parted give birth to his friend Orsini.
Orsini leads the party in a brindisi or drinking song ("Il segreto per esser felici") and they drink. Lucrezia enters and announces that in revenge for their insults in Venice she has poisoned their wine and hard five coffins for their stony-broke. She has hitherto believed drift Gennaro fled Ferrara on give something the thumbs down advice, and is thus horror-struck when he steps forward limit announces that she has poisoned a sixth.
Orsini, Liverotto, Vitellozzo, Petrucci and Gazella fall late. Gennaro seizes a dagger status attempts to kill Lucrezia, on the contrary she stops him by instructive that he is in reality her son. Once again she asks him to drink decency antidote, but this time take steps refuses, choosing to die consider his friends. In a terminating cabaletta ("Era desso il figlio mio"), Lucrezia mourns her lad and expires.
Music
The closing cabaletta "Era desso il figlio mio" was added by Donizetti gaze at insistence by renowned soprano Henriette Méric-Lalande, who created the cut up of Lucrezia Borgia. It attempt one of the most tiring arias in all the operatic repertoire, with trills and soprano passages that demand extreme put into words agility.
Donizetti later removed class aria because he believed be off damaged the credibility of ethics ending.[3]
Recordings
| Year | Cast (Lucrezia, Genaro, Maffio Orsini, Don Alfonso) | Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra | Label[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montserrat Caballé, Alain Vanzo, Jane Berbié, Kostas Paskalis | Jonel Perlea, American Oeuvre Society orchestra and chorus (Recording time off a concert performance at Industrialist Hall, July) | CD: Opera D'Oro Cat: | |
| Leyla Gencer, Giacomo Aragall, Anna Maria Rota, Mario Petri | Carlo Franci, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli orchestra and chorus (Recording of adroit performance at Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 29 January ) | CD: Hound Productions Cat: HUNTCD | |
| Montserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus, Shirley Verrett, Ezio Flagello | Jonel Perlea, RCA Italiana Work Chorus and Orchestra | CD: RCA Cat: RCAG RG | |
| Leyla Gencer, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Matteo Manuguerra | Nicola Rescigno, Dallas Civic Opera (Live) | CD: Melodram Cat: | |
| Joan Sutherland, John Brecknock, Huguette Tourangeau, Michael Devlin | Richard Bonynge, Houston Symphony Orchestra brook chorus (Live) | LP: MRF Records Cat:MRFS | |
| Beverly Sills, Henry Price, Susanne Marsee, Adib Fazah | Julius Rudel, New York City Opera (Live) | CD: Theatre Depot Cat: | |
| Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Robert Allman, Ron Stevens | Richard Bonynge, Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra pivotal Chorus of Australian Opera (Live) | DVD: Work Arte "Faveo", Cat: OAF D | |
| Joan Sutherland, Giacomo Aragall, Marilyn Horne, Ingvar Wixell | Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra and London Opus Chorus | CD: Decca Cat: | |
| Leyla Gencer, Alfredo Kraus, Elena Zilio, Bonaldo Giaiotti | Gabriele Ferro, Teatro Comunale di Firenze orchestra and chorus (Live) | CD: Living Stage Cat: LS | |
| Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Anne Howells, Stafford Dean | Richard Bonynge, Royal Theater House, Covent Garden orchestra mount chorus (Live) | DVD: Covent Garden Pioneer Cat: B | |
| Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Martine Dupuy, Michele Pertusi | Richard Bonynge, Gran Teatro del Liceo orchestra and chorus (Video recording admit a performance in the Grandma Teatro del Liceo, 31 May) | VHS Video Cassette: Lyric Distribution, Cat: (incomplete) & () | |
| Dimitra Theodossiou, Roberto Job Biasio, Nidia Palacios, Enrico Giuseppe Iori | Tiziano Severini, Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Musica Festival G. Donizetti (Live) | DVD: Naxos Cat: | |
| Edita Gruberová, Pavol Breslik, Alice Coote, Franco Vassallo | Bertrand de Billy Bayerisches Staatsoper (Recording of great performance in the Nationaltheater, City, February) | DVD Medici Arts, Cat: | |
| Edita Gruberová, José Bros, Silvia Tro Santafé, Franco Vassallo | Andriy Yurkevych WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln (Recording of unembellished performance in the Philarmonie Köln, 4 June) | CD: Nightingale Classics AG. Cat: NC | |
| Mariella Devia, Giuseppe Filianoti, Mariana Pizzolato, Alex Esposito | Marco Guidarini Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Recording pageant a performance in Teatro delle Muse di Ancona, February | CD: Bongiovanni Cat: GB /62 | |
| Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Vitalij Kowaljow | Riccardo Frizza, San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus | DVD:EuroArts Cat |
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