[lit-ideas] Con che soavita
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:09:25 EST
In a message dated 3/3/2009 12:04:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>When your history of Covent Garden is complete
It *is* complete. I'm only into the royal Italian opera, and the last season
is finished ('last act', 1891). I lose all interest in opera apres that.
Geary will comment on which ones made the history of ideas in literature.
Con che suavità, being an analysis of the 46 Seasons of the Royal Italian
Opera at the Covent Garden, 1847-1891 -- By J. L. Speranza, Esq. For the
Associazione Anglo-Italiana d’Opera -- The following is study in the history
of
literary ideas. This Opera initiated the seasons in 1847 up to 1893. It was
the
period of splendour of those ‘fashionable acts’… The Royal Italian Opera
ran for 47 seasons. By 1893, the fashion of opera in languages other than
Italian had began – it was a point of no return! The study is organized
chronologically. The ‘opera di obbligo’ (season novelty) is given particular
importance, with an examination of the reviews of the day. ENJOY the show at
the Box!
The Glorious Forties: The first three seasons
Op'ning Season 1847 SEASON. Per force, all the 17 operas at the opening
season should be counted as “opera di obbligo” or novelties. Only in the
premiere will we expand on information on librettist, etc. The conductor was
Michael Costa. The resident tenor was MARIO. 1. “ANNA BOLENA” Donizetti. Now
available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 2. “IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA”
Rossini. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 3. “DON GIOVANNI”
Mozart. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 4. “LA DONNA DEL
LAGO”. Rossini. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 5. “I
DUE FOSCARI”. Verdi. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 6. “L
’ELISIR D’AMORE”. Donizetti. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by
SALVI. 7. “ERNANI”. Verdi. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by Salvi.
8. “LA GAZZA LADRA”. Rossini. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by
MARIO 9. “L’ ITALIANA IN ALGERIA”. Rossini. Now available on DVD. Tenor role
created by Salvi. 10. “LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR”. Donizetti. Now available on DVD.
Tenor role created by Salvi 11. “LUCREZIA BORGIA”. Donizetti. Now available
on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 12. “MARIA DI ROHAN”. Donizetti. Tenor
role created by Salvi. 13. “NORMA”. Bellini. Now available on DVD. Tenor
role created by Salvi. 14. “LE NOZZE DI FIGARO”. Mozart. Now available on DVD.
Tenor role created by Tamburini. 15. “I PURITANI”. Bellini. Now available
on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO. 16. “SEMIRAMIDE” Rossini. Now available
on DVD. Tenor role created by Tamburini 17. “LA SONNAMBULA”. Bellini. Now
available on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO.
2nd Season 1848 The conductor was Michael Costa. 1. ANNA BOLENA 2. BARBIERE
DI SEVIGLIA → 3. CAPULETTI ED I MONTECCHI. Bellini. Tenor role created by
Mei. → 4. CENERENTOLA. Tenor role created by Salvi. 5. DON GIOVANNI 6. DONNA
DEL LAGO → 7. FAVORITA. Tenor role created by MARIO (“Spirto Gentil”) 8.
GAZZA LADRA → 9. GUILLELMO TELL. Tenor role created by Tamburini → 10. I
UGENOTTI. Tenor role created by Mario. 11. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 12. LUCREZIA
BORGIA
13. NORMA 14. NOZZE DI FIGARO → 15. LA PROVA D’UN’OPERA SERIA. Tenor role
created by Tamburini. 16. PURITANI 17. SEMIRAMIDE 18. SONNAMBULA →19. TANCREDI.
Tenor role created by Mei.
3rd Season 1849 The conductor was: Michael Costa. 1. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 2.
DON GIOVANNI 3. DONNA DEL LAGO 4. UGONOTTI → 5. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX.
Donizetti. Now available on DVD. Role created by Salvi. 6. LUCREZIA BORGIA 7.
LUCIA
DI LAMERMOOR → 8. MASANIELLO. Auber. Role created by MARIO. 9. IL MATRIMONIO
SEGRETO. Cimarosa. Tenor role created by MARIO. 10. NORMA 11. NOZZE DI
FIGARO →12. IL PROFETA. Meyerbeer. Tenor role created by MARIO. →13. ROBERT LE
DIABLE. Tenor role created by Salvi. 14. SEMIRAMIDE. 15. SONNAMBULA
The Fifties, or Victoria's Little Wars:
4th Season 1850 Director of the Season: GYE. Conductor: Michael Costa. 1.
BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 2. DON GIOVANNI 3. DONNA DEL LAGO 4. ELISIR D’AMORE 5.
ARCERO 6. GAZZA LADRA 7. UGONOTTI 8. JUIVE 9. LUCREZIA BORGIA 10. MASANIELLO
11. MOSE. Rossini. Given as “Zora”. Tenor role created by Tamberlik. 12.
NABUCCO. Verdi. Given as “Anato”. Tenor role created by Tamberlik. 13. NORMA
14. OTELLO. Rossini. Tenor role created by Tamberlik. 15. PROFETA 16. ROBERT
LE DIABLE 17. SEMIRAMIDE.
5th Season 1851 Director: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. DON GIOVANNI 2.
DONNA DEL LAGO 3. ELISIR D’AMORE 4. FAVORITA 5. FIDELIO. Beethoven. Now
available on DVD. 6. ARCERO. 7. GAZZA LADRA 8. UGONOTTI. 9. LUCREZIA BORGIA
10.
MASANIELLO 11. NORMA 12. OTELLO
13. PROFETA 14. PURITANI 15. ROBERT LE DIABLE → 16. SAFFO. (2 performances)
Musica di Pacini. Tenor role created by Tamerlik. 17. SEMIRAMIDE 18. FLAUTO
MAGICO.
6th Season 1852. Dir.: Gye Cond.: Michael Costa 1. ANNA BOLENA 2. BARBIERE
DI SEVIGLIA 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. ELISIR D’AMORE 5. ERNANI 6. FAUST. Gounod.
Now on DVD. 7. GUILLELMO TELL. 8. UGONOTTI 9. JUIVE 10. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR
11. LUCREZIA BORGIA
12. MARIA DI ROHAN 13. NORMA 14. OTELLO 15. PIETRO IL GRANDE. Donizetti.
16. POLIUTO. Donizetti. Given as “I Martiri”. 17. PROFETA 18. PURITANI 19.
ROBERT LE DIABLE 20. SONNAMBULA 21. ZAUBERFLOTE.
6th Season 1853 Dir: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 2.
BENVENUTO CELLINI (1 performance) Berlioz. Tenor role created by Tamberlik.
3. DON GIOVANNI 4. ELISIR D’AMORE 5. ERNANI 6. FAVORITA 7. GUILLELMO TELL 8.
UGONOTTI 9. JESSONDA. Musica di Spohr. Role created by Lucchesi. 10.
LUCREZIA BORGIA. 11. MARIA DI ROHAN 12. MASANIELLO 13. NORMA 14. OTELLO 15.
PROFETA 16. PURITANI → 17. RIGOLETTO. Verdi. Now on DVD. Tenor role created by
MARIO. 18. ROBERT LE DIABLE
8th Season 1854 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BARIERE DI SEVIGLIA 2.
CONTE D’ORY. Rossini. Now on DVD. 3. DON GIOVANNI
→ 4. DON PASQUALE. Donizetti. Now on DVD. Tenor role created by Temberlik.
5. ELISIR D’AMORE 6. ERNANI 7. FAVORITA 8. FIDELIO 9. GUILLELMO TELL 10.
UGONOTTI 11. LUCREZIA BORGIA 12. MATILDE DI SHABRAN. Rossini. 13. NORMA 14.
OTELLO. Rossini 15. PROFETA 16. LA PROVA D’UN’OPERA SERIA. Gnechho 17.
PURITANI
18. RIGOLETTO.
9th Season 1855 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa. 1. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
2. CONTE D’ORY 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. DON PASQUALE
5. ERNANI 6. LA STELLA DEL NORD. 7. FAVORITA 8. FIDELIO 9. UGONOTTI 10.
LUCREZIA BORGIA 11. NORMA 12. OTELLO. Rossini 13. PROFETA
14. PURITANI → 15. TROVATORE. Verdi. Now available on DVD. Role created by
Tamberlik.
10th Season 1858 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
2. DON GIOVANNI 3. FRA DIAVOLO 4. UGONOTTI 5. LUCREZIA BORGIA 6. MARTHA.
Flotow. Tenor role created by MARIO (“M’appari tutt’amor”).& 7. NORMA 8.
OTELLO. Rossini → 9. TRAVIATA. Verdi. Now on DVD. Role created by MARIO. 10.
TROVATORE 11. ZAMPA. Musica di Herold. Tenor role created by Tamberlik.
11th Season 1859 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. DINORAH 2. DON
GIOVANNI 3. GAZZA LADRA 4. GIURAMENTO. Mercadante. Tenor role created by
MARIO. 5.
UGONOTTI 6. LUCREZIA BORGIA 7. MARIA DI ROHAN. Donizetti. 8. MARTHA 9.
NORMA 10. OTELLO Rossini. 11. PURITANI 12. RIGOLETTO 13. SONNAMBULA. Bellini.
This premiered on the first season. 14. TRAVIATA 15. TROVATORE.
The Psychedelic Sixties:
12th Season 1860 Dir.: Gyr Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA
2. DINORAH 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. FAVORITA 5. FIDELIO
6. FRA DIAVOLO 7. GAZZA LADRA 8. UGONOTTI 9. LUCREZIA BORGIA 10. MARTHA 11.
NORMA 12. ORFEO ED EURIDICE. Gluck. Tenor role created by Costa. 13. PROFETA
14. PURITANI 15. RIGOLETTO 16. TROVATORE.
13th Season 1861 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa → 1. BALLO IN MASCHERA.
Verdi. Now on DVD. Tenor role created by MARIO.
2. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. FAVORITA 5. GUGLIELMO TELL 6.
UGONOTTI 7. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 8. LUCREZIA BORGIA
9. MARTHA 10. NORMA 11. PROFETA 12. PURITANI 13. RIGOLETTO 14. SONNAMBULA
15. TRAVIATA 16. TROVATORE
14th Season 1862 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BALLO IN MASCHERA 2.
BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 3. DINORAH 4. DON GIOVANNI 5. DON PASQUALE 6. FAVORITA
7. GUILLELMO TELL 8. UGONOTTI 9. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 10. MARTHA 11. MASANIELLO
12. PROFETA 13. RIGOLETTO 14. ROBERT LE DIABLE 15. SONNAMBULA 16. TRAVIATA
17. TROVATORE
15th Season 1863 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA
2. DON GIOVANNI 3. DON PASQUALE 4. ELISIR D’AMORE
5. FAUSTO -- Gounod 6. FILLE DU REGIMENT. Donizetti. Tenor role created by
Costa. 7. GAZZA LADRA 8. GUILLELMO TELL 9. UGONOTTI 10. MARTHA
11. MASANIELLO 12. NORMA 13. PROFETA 14. PURITANI 15. RIGOLETTO 16. ROBERT
LE DIABLE 17. SONNAMBULA 18. TRAVIATA 10. TROVATORE
16th Season 1864 Director: Gyr Conductor: Michael Costa 1. BALLO IN MASCHERA
2. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. ELISIR D’AMORE 5. STELLA DEL NORD
6. FAUSTO 7. FAVORITA 8. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 9. GUILLELMO TELL 10. UGONOTTI
11. MARTHA 12. MASANIELLO 13. NORMA 14. OTELLO 15. PROFETA 16. ROBERT LE
DIABLE 17. SONNAMBULA 18. STRADELLA. Tenor role created by Ronconi. 19.
TRAVIATA
20. TROVATORE.
17th Season 1865 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. L’AFRICANA –
Meyerbeer. Tenor role created by Costa. 2. BALLO IN MASCHERA
3. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 4. DON GIOVANNI 5. DON PASQUALE 6. ELISIR D’AMORE 7.
STELLA DEL NORD 8. FAUSTO 9. FAVORITA 10. UGONOTTI
11. UGONOTTI 12. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 13. MARTHA 14. NORMA 15. PROFETA 16.
RIGOLETTO 17. SONNAMBULA 18. TROVATORE
18th Season 1866 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA → 4. CRISPINO E LA COMADRE, ossia il medico
e la morte. Musica di i fratelli Ricci. Tenor role created by Costa. 5. DON
GIOVANNI 6. ELISIR D’AMORE 7. STELLA DEL NORD 8. FAUSTO 9. FAVORITA 10. FRA
DIAVOLO. 11. UGONOTTI 12. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 13. LUCREZIA BORGIA 14. MARTHA
15. NORMA 16. NOZZE DI FIGARO. 17. PROFETA 18. SONNAMBULA 19. TRAVIATA 20.
TROVATORE
19th Season 1867 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 4. CRISPINO E LA COMARE → 5. DON CARLO.
Verdi. Now available on DVD. Tenor role created by Graziani. 6. DON GIOVANNI
7.
FAUSTO 8. FAVORITA 9. FRA DIAVOLO 10. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 11. MASANIELLO 12.
NORMA 13. NOZZE DI FIGARO 14. ROMEO E GIULIETTA. Gounod. Tenor role created by
Mario. 15. SONNAMBULA.
20th Season 1868 Dir.: Gye Conductor: Michael Costa 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. DOMINO NOIR. Auber. 5. DON CARLO 6. DON
GIOVANNI 7. DON PASQUALE 8. FAUSTO 9. FAVORITA 10. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 11.
FRA DIAVOLO 12. GUILLELMO TELL 13. UGONOTTI 14. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 15. MARTHA
16. NORMA 17. PURITANI 18. RIGOLETTO 19. ROBERT LE DIABLE 20. ROMEO E
GIULIETTA. Gounod 21. SONNAMBULA
21st Season 1868 Dir.: MAPLESON Conductor: LUIGI ARDITI 1. DINORAH 2. DON
GIOVANNI 3. FAUSTO 4. FIDELIO 5. UGONOTTI 6. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 7. LUCIA DI
LAMERMOOR 8. LUCREZIA BORGIA 9. NORMA 10. NOZZE DI FIGARO 11. SONNAMBULA 12.
TROVATORE 13. FLAUTO MAGICO.
22nd Season 1869 -- Directors: Gye and Mapleson. Conductor: Luigi Arditi.
1. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 2. DINORAH → 3. DON BUCEFALO Opera by CAGNONI.
Received one performance. 4. DON GIOVANNI 5. DON PASQUALE 6. FAUSTO 7. FIDELIO
8.
FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 9. GAZZA LADRA 10. GUILLELMO TELL 11. AMLETO – Musica di
Thomas. Tenor role created by Santley. 12. UGONOTTI 13. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 14.
LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 15. MARTHA 16. NORMA 17. PROFETA 18. PURITANI 19.
RIGOLETTO 20. ROBERT LE DIABLE 21. SONNAMBULA 22. TRAVIATA 23. TROVATORE 24.
FLAUTO
MAGICO
23rd Season 1869 Dir.: Mapleson Conductor: Arditi 1. DON GIOVANNI 2. FIDELIO
3. ARCERO 4. AMLETO 5. UGONOTTI 6. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 7. LUCREZIA BORGIA 8.
MARTA 9. NOZZE DI FIGARO 10. ROBERT LE DIABLE 11. SONNAMBULA 12. TROVATORE
13. FLAUTO MAGICO
The Seventies, or Victoria's Little Wars (A revival)
24th Season 1870 -- Director: Gye and Mapleson -- Conductor: Enrico
Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO IN MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. DINORAH
5.
DOMINO NOIR. Auber 6. DON GIOVANNI 7. DON PASQUALE 8. ESMERALDA??? 9.
STELLA
DEL NORD 10. FAUSTO 11. FAVORITA 12. FIDELIO 13. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 14. FRA
DIAVOLO 15. GUILLELMO TELL 16. AMLETO 17. UGONOTTI 18. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR
19. LUCREZIA BORGIA 20. MARTA 21. MEDEA. (1 performance) Cherubini. Now
available on DVD. Tenor role created by Gunz. 22. NORMA 23. NOZZE DI FIGARO
24.
PURITANI 25. RIGOLETTO 26. SONNAMBULA 27. TRAVIATA 28. TROVATORE 29. FLAUTO
MAGICO.
25th Season 1871 -- Dir.: Gye -- Conductor: Enrico Bevignani 1.
AFRICANA 2. ASTUZIE FEMINILI. Musica di Cimarosa. Opera di obbligo.
3. BALLO IN MASCHERA 4. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 5. DINORAH 6. DON GIOVANNI 7.
ESMERALDA 8. STELLA DEL NORD 9. FAUSTO 10. FAVORITA
11. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 12. FRA DIAVOLO 13. GUILLELMO TELL 14. AMLETO 15.
UGONOTTI 16. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 17. MARTA 18. NOZZE DI FIGARO 19. OTELLO 20.
PURITANI 21. RIGOLETTO 22. SONNAMBULA 23. TRAVIATA 24. TROVATORE 25. FLAUTO
MAGICO.
26th Season 1872 -- Dir.: Gye -- Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2.
BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 3. DINORAH 4. DON GIOVANNI 5. ELISIR D’AMORE 6. STELLA
DEL NORD
7. FAUSTO 8. FAVORITA 9. FIDELIO 10. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 11. FRA DIAVOLO
12. ARCERO 13. GELMINA. Musica di Poniator. Opera di obbligo. 14. GUARANY.
Gomes. 15. AMLETO 16. UGONOTTI 17. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 18. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR
19. MARTA 20. NORMA 21. NOZZE DI FIGARO 22. RIGOLETTO 23. SONNAMBULA 24.
TRAVIATA 25. TROVATORE 26. FLAUTO MAGICO.
27th Season 1873 -- Dir.: Gye -- Conductor:Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO
IN MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. I DIAMANTI DELLA CORONNA. Auber. Tenor
role created by Bettini. 5. DINORAH 6. DON GIOVANNI 7. ELISIR D’AMORE 8.
ERNANI 9. STELLA DEL NORD 10. FAUSTO 11. FAVORITA 12. ARCERO 13. GUILLELMO
TELL
14. AMLETO 15. UGONOTTI 16. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 17. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 18.
MARTA 19. MASANIELLO 20. NOZZE DI FIGARO 21. OTELLO. Rossini 22. PURITANI 23.
RIGOLETTO 24. SONNAMBULA 25. TRAVIATA 26. TROVATORE.
28th Season 1874 Dir.: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. CRISPINO E LA COMARE. Ricci 5. DIAMANTI
DELLA CORONA. Auber 6. DINORAH 7. DON GIOVANNI 8. ERNANI 9. STELLA DEL NORD
10. FAUSTO 11. FAVORITA 12. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 13. ARCERO 14. GUARANY 15.
GUILLELMO TELL 16. AMLETO 17. UGONOTTI 18. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 19. LUCIA DI
LAMERMOOR 20. LUCREZIA BORGIA → 21. LUISA MILLER. Verdi. Now on DVD. Tenor
role
created by Nicolini. 22. MARTA 23. MIGNON 24. NORMA 25. PURITANI 26.
RIGOLETTO
27. ROBERT LE DIABLE 28. SONNAMBULA 29. TRAVIATA 30. TROVATORE 31. FLAUTO
MAGICO.
29th Season 1875 -- Dir.: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. BALLO
IN MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. DIAMANTE DELLA CORONA. Auber 5. DINORAH
6. DON GIOVANNI 7. ELISIR D’AMORE 8. STELLA DEL NORD 9. FAUSTO 10. FAVORITA
11. FIDELIO 12. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 13. FRA DIAVOLO 14. ARCERO 15. GUILLELMO
TELL 16. UGONOTTI 17. LOHENGRIN. Wagner. In Italian. 18. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR
19. LUCREZIA BORGIA 20. NORMA 21. NOZZE DI FIGARO 22. RIGOLETTO 23. ROBERT LE
DIABLE 24. ROMEO E GIULIETTA. Gounod 25. SEMIRAMIDE 26. SONNAMBULA 27.
TRAVIATA 28. TROVATORE 29. FLAUTO MAGICO
30th Season. 1876 -- Director: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA → 2.
AIDA. Verdi. Now on DVD. Tenor role created by NICOLINI (“Celeste Aida”) 3.
BALLO IN MASCHERA 4. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 5. CRISPINO E LA COMARE 6. DINORAH
7.
DON GIOVANNI 8. DON PASQUALE 9. ELISIR D’AMORE 10. STELLA DEL NORD 11.
FAUSTO 12. FAVORITA 13. FIGLIA DEL REGIMENTO 14. FRA DIAVOLO 15. GUILLELMO
TELL
16. AMLETO 17. UGONOTTI 18. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 19. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 20.
LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 21. MARTHA 22. NOZZE DI FIGARO 23. PURITANI 24. RIGOLETTO
25. ROMEO E GIULIETTA. Gounod 26. SONNAMBULA 27. TANNHAUSER, in Italian. 28.
TRAVIATA 29. TROVATORE 30. FLAUTO MAGICO.
31st Season 1877. Dir.: Gye -- Conductor: Bevignani 1. AIDA 2. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. DINORAH 5. DON GIOVANNI 6. DON PASQUALE 7.
STELLA DEL NORD 8. FAUSTO 9. FAVORITA 10. OLANDESE. Wagner. In Italian. 11.
FRA DIAVOLO 12. GUILLELMO TELL 13. AMLETO 14. UGONOTTI 15. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
16. LOHENGRIN. In Italian 17. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 18. WINDSOR. Musica di
Nicolai (2 performances). 19. MARTA 20. PURITANI 21. RIGOLETTO 22. ROMEO E
GIULIETTA Gounod 23. SANTA CHIARA??? (two performances). Tenor role crated by
Capponi. 24. SONNAMBULA 25. TANNHAUSER. In Italian. 26. TRAVIATA 27. TROVATORE
28.
FLAUTO MAGICO.
32nd Season 1878 -- Director: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. AIDA
3. ALMA ???? Tenor role created by Capoul 4. BALLO IN MASCHERA 5. BARBIERE DI
SEVIGLIA 6. DINORAH 7. DON GIOVANNI 8. ERNANI 9. STELLA DEL NORD 10. FAUSTO
11. FAVORITA 12. FRA DIAVOLO 13. ARCERO 14. GUILLELMO TELL 15. AMLETO 16.
UGONOTTI 17. LOHENGRIN. In Italian 18. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 19. LUCREZIA BORGIA
20. MARTA 21. PAULO E VIRGINIA???? Tenor role created by Capoul 22. PROFETA
23.
PURITANI 24. RIGOLETTO 25. SEMIRAMIDE 26. SONNAMBULA 27. TANNHAUSER. In
Italian. 28. TRAVIATA 29. TROVATORE.
33rd Season 1879 Director: Gye -- Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. AIDA 3.
GLI AMANTI DI VERONA ???? 4. BALLO IN MASCHERA 5. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 6.
DINORAH 7. DON GIOVANNI 8. ERNANI 9. STELLA DEL NORD 10. FAUSTO 11. FAVORITA
12. FRA DIAVOLO 13. ARCERO 14. AMLETO 15. UGONOTTI 16. LOHENGRIN. In Italian.
17. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 18. LUCREZIA BORGIA. 9. MARTA 20. NORMA 21. NOZZE
DI FIGARO 22. PROFETA 23. ROBERT LE DIABLE 24. RE DI LAHORE. Massenet. 25.
SEMIRAMIDE 26. TANNHAUSER. In Italian. 27. TRAVIATA 28. TROVATORE.
The Roarin' Eighties
34th Season 1880 -- Director: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2.
BALLO IN MASCHERA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. DINORAH
5. DON GIOVANNI 6. ESTELLA 7. FAUSTO 8. FAVORITA 9. UGONOTTI 10. LOHENGRIN.
In Italian. 11. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 12. MIGNON.
13. PRE AUX CLERCS 14. PROFETA 15. PURITANI 16. RIGOLETTO 17. RE DI LAHORE
18. ROME E GIULIETTA. Gounod. 19. SEMIRAMIDE 20. SONNAMBULA 21. TRAVIATA 22.
TROVATORE
35th Season 1881 -- Director: Gye. Conductor: Bevignani 1. AIDA 2.
BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 3. DEMON (4 performances) ????? 4. DINORAH
5. DON GIOVANNI 6. RATTO DEL SERAGLIO. Mozart. Tenor role created by Marini
7. STELLA DEL NORD 8. FAUSTO 9. ARCERO 10. GUILLELMO TELL 11. UGONOTTI 12.
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 13. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 14. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 15.
MIGNON. Musica di Thomas. Tenor role: Tecchi 16. PRE AUX CLERCS 17. PROFETA
18.
PURITANI 19. RIGOLETTO 20, ROBERT LE DIABLE – Meyerbeer. Tenor role: Corsi 21.
ROMEO E GIULIETTA. Gounod 22. SEMIRAMIDE 23. SONNAMBULA 24. TRAVIATA 25.
TROVATORE.
36th Season 1882. Director: Gye -- Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2.
AIDA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. CARMEN – In Italian. Bizet. Tenor role
created by Lestellier. 5. DINORAH 6. DON GIOVANNI 7. RATTO DEL SERAGLIO 8.
STELLA
DEL NORD 9. FAUSTO 10. FAVORITA 11. FRA DIAVOLO 12. GUILLAUME TELL 13.
UGONOTTI 14. LOHENGRIN. Italian. 15. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR → 16. MEFISTOFELE di
Boito. Tenor role created by Mierzwinksi. 17. MIGNON. Thomas 18. NOZZE DI
FIGARO 19. PROFETA 20. PURITANI 21. RIGOLETTO 22. ROMEO E GIULIETTA 23.
SEMIRAMIDE
24. SONNAMBULA 25. TRAVIATA 26. TROVATORE 27. VELLEDA????? (3 performances)
Tenor role created by Nicolini.
37th Season 1883. Director: Gye -- Conductor: Bevignani 1. AFRICANA 2. AIDA
3. BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA 4. CARMEN 5. DINORAH
6. STELLA DEL NORD 7. FAUSTO 8. OLANDESE Wagner – In Italian. 9. GAZZA
LADRA 10. GIULLIELMO TELL → 11. LA GIOCONDA. (7 performances) Ponchielli.
Libretto by Boito. Tenor role Marconi (“Cielo e mar”) 12. UGONOTTI 13.
LOHENGRIN
in Italian. 14. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 15. MARTA 16. MEFISTOFELE Boito. 17. NOZZE
DI FIGARO 18. PROFETA 19. PURITANI 20. RIGOLETTO 21. SEMIRAMIDE 22.
SONNAMBULA 23. TRAVIATA 24. TROVATORE
38th Season 1884 -- Director: Gye. Conductor: Bevigniani 1. AFRICANA 2.
AIDA 3. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 4. CARMEN 5. DINORAH
6. DON GIOVANNI 7. STELLA DEL NORD. Meyerbeer. 8. FAUSTO 9. FIDELIO 10.
OLANDESE. Wagner. 11. ARCERO. 12. GIOCONDA. Ponchielli.
13. UGONOTTI 14. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 15. LOHENGRIN in Italian. 16. LUCIA DI
LAMERMOOR 17. LUCREZIA BORGIA 18. MEFISTOFELE
19. MEISTERSINGER – in Italian. 20. NOZZE DI FIGARO 21. RIGOLETTO 22. ROMEO
E GIULIETTA 23. SAVONAROLA. Stanford. Libretto: Gilbert Thomas a Beckett 24.
SEMIRAMIDE 25. SIGURD ???? Tenor role: Jourdain. 26. TANNHAUSER. In Italian
27. TRAVIATA 28. TRISTAN E ISOLDA. In Italian.
29. TROVATORE
39th Season 1885. Director: MAPLESON. Conductor: Luigi Arditi. 1. BARBIERE
DI SEVIGLIA 2. CARMEN 3. FAUSTO 4. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
5. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 6. MARTA 7. RIGOLETTO 8. SEMIRAMIDE 9. SONNAMBULA 10.
TRAVIATA 11. TROVATORE
40th 1886 Director: LAGO Conductor: Bevignani 1. BALLO IN MASCHERA 2.
BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. ERNANI 5. FAUSTO 6. GIOCONDA 7.
UGONOTTI
8. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX 9. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 10. LUCREZIA BORGIA. 11.
LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 12. NOZZE DI FIGARO 13. RIGOLETTO 14. TRAVIATTA 15.
TROVATORE
41st Season 1887 Director: MAPLESON Conductor: Calsi. 1. BARBIERE DI
SIVIGLIA 2. CARMEN 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. FAUSTO 5. FAVORITA 6. FRA DIAVOLO. 7.
LUCIA
DI LAMERMOOR 8. MARTHA 9. MIREILLE -- ? 10. I PESCATORI DI PERLE. Bizet
(given as “Leila”). 11. RIGOLETTO 12. SONNAMBULA 13. TRAVIATA 14. TROVATORE
42nd Season 1887 Director: LAGO. Conductor: Bevignani 1. BALLO IN
MASCHERA 2. DINORAH – Meyerbeer. 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. ERNANI 5. FAUSTO 6.
FAVORITA
7. GUILLELMO TELL 8. UGONOTTI 9. LIFE FOR THE TSAR. 10. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
11. LOHENGRIN In Italian. 12. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 13. LUCREZIA BORGIA 14.
PURITANI 15. RIGOLETTO 16. SEMIRAMIDE 17. SONNAMBULA 18. TRAVIATTA 19.
TROVATORE
43rd Season 1888 Director: HARRIS -- Conductor: Luigi Mancinelli 1.
AFRICANA 2. AIDA 3. BALLO IN MASCHERA 4. BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
5. CARMEN. 6. DON GIOVANNI 7. FAUSTO 8. FRA DIAVOLO. 9. GUILLELMO TELL.
10. UGONOTTI. 11. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 12. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR 13. LUCREZIA
BORGIA 14. MEFISTOFELE 15. NOZZE DI FIGARO 16. RIGOLETTO 17. TRAVIATTA 18.
TROVATORE 19. FLAUTO MAGICO
44th Season 1889 Director: HARRIS Conductors: Luigi Arditi and Luigi
Mancinelli. 1. AIDA 2. CARMEN. 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. FAUSTO
5. GUILLELMO TELL 6. UGONOTTI 7. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 8. MEFISTOFELE 9.
MEISTERSINGER. In Italian. 10. NOZZE DI FIGARO 11. I PESCATORI DE PERLE. 12.
RIGOLETTO 13. ROMEO E GIULIETTA. Gounod. 14. SONNAMBULA 15. TRAVIATTA 16.
TROVATORE
The Naughty Nineties: the last two seasons -- and Oscar Wilde's scandal.
45th Season 1890 Director: Harris. -- Conductors: Bevignani, Mancinelli.
1. CARMEN 2. . DON GIOVANNI 3. ESMERALDA. Thomas. PERFORMED In French!!! 4.
FAUSTO 5. FAVORITA 6. AMLETO 7. UGONOTTI 8. LOHENGRIN. In Italian. 9. LUCIA
DI
LAMERMOOR 10. MEISTERSINGER. Italian. 11. NOZZE DI FIGARO 12. PESCATORI DI
PERLE 13. PROFETA 14. RIGOLETTO 15. ROMEO E GIULIETTA 16. SONNAMBULA 17.
TRAVIATTA 18. TROVATORE
46th Season 1891 – Director: Harris. Conductors: Bevignani, Mancinelli. 1.
AIDA 2. CARMEN 3. DON GIOVANNI 4. FAUST 5. FIDELIO
6. HUGUENOTS 7. LOHENGRIN 8. LUCIA DI LAMERMOOR 9. MANON -- Massenet 10.
MARTHA 11. MEFISTOFELE 12. MEISTERSINGER. In Italian. 13. MIREILLE -- Gounod
14.
ORFEO ED EURIDICE. Gluck. 15. OTELLO -- Rossini 16. IL PROFETA – Meyerbeer
17. RIGOLETTO 18. ROMEO E GIULIETTA – Gounod. 19. TANNHAUSER. In Italian. 20.
TRAVIATA
Appendix 1 GELMINA Melodrama in tre atti By Giuseppe Poniator
Covent Garden, 1872. Giuseppe Poniator was born in Rome in 1816 and
naturalized
as a Tuscan subject. He received the title of “prince in Tuscany” (1847). He
studied music with Ceccherini at Firenze, and wrote numerous operas. In the
first of his operas, “Giovanni di Procida” (1838) Poniator sang the title
role himself at Lucca. He represented the court of Tuscany in Paris from
1848,
and he was made a senator by Napoleon III., whom he followed to England in
1871. His last opera, “Gelmina”, was produced at by the Royal Italian Opera,
at Covent Garden in 1872, where it received three performances. The cast
being Lucca, Sessi; Nicolini, Cotogni, Faure; Vianesi. Poniator died on the
3rd
of July 1873, and was buried at Chislehurst.
Appendix 2 Don Bucefalo di Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896) libretto
di Calisto Bassi Melodramma giocoso in tre atti Prima: Milano, Conservatorio,
28 giugno 1847 – Covent Garden: Royal Italian Opera. Personaggi: Don
Bucefalo, maestro di musica spiantato (B); Carlino, giovane militare (T);
Rosa,
sua presunta vedova (S); Agata (Ms) e Giannetta (S), contadine; Don Marco,
benestante podagroso e spasimante di Rosa (B); il conte di Belprato, amante di
Rosa (T); contadini e contadine. La vena espressiva di Cagnoni si realizza
compiutamente nel genere buffo che, attorno alla metà dell’Ottocento, conobbe
una
rinnovata fortuna. A questo particolare momento appartiene “Don Bucefalo”,
che risale al periodo di apprendistato del compositore presso il
Conservatorio milanese. Il libretto, parafrasi di quello di G. Palomba per Le
cantatrici
villane di Fioravanti, si inserisce nel ricco filone dei soggetti legati alla
satira sul teatro in musica. Don Bucefalo ode cantare alcune contadine di
Frascati e ne rimane colpito; offre loro lezioni di canto, lusingandole con
promesse di gloria. Giannetta, Agata e Rosa abboccano; quest’ultima si consola
della presunta vedovanza con il conte di Belprato e con il vecchio Don Marco.
Ma Carlino torna inaspettatamente e apprende di quegli intrighi amorosi. La
vicenda si snoda quindi tra i battibecchi delle contadine, che si contendono
il ruolo di ‘prima donna’, le peripezie dei loro amanti e le velleità
artistiche di Bucefalo; il culmine giunge nel terzo atto, allorché il maestro
di
musica allestisce la sua nuova opera. Rosa ne è la prima donna ma, proprio al
momento della sua entrata in scena, ecco comparire Carlino che reclama la
moglie, creando lo scompiglio generale. Don Bucefalo si dispera per il
fallimento
della prova; Agata e Giannetta, invidiose di Rosa, esultano per la sua
imminente punizione; il conte trema. Naturalmente tutto finisce per il meglio
e
Rosa si pente, giurando fedeltà al marito ritrovato. Al protagonista sono
affidate gustose gags musicali, non nuove ma d’effetto, se interpretate da un
buon
attore (allora il ruolo venne magnificamente ricoperto da Zucchini, e
divenne il cavallo di battaglia del celebre ‘basso buffo’ Alessandro Bottero,
che
presentò l’opera a Parigi, al Théâtre Italien, 9 nov. 1865). Nell’opera
abbondano inventiva melodica e divertenti trovate; Cagnoni aggiorna il
vocabolario di Rossini alle conquiste di Donizetti, sfrutta con oculatezza gli
stereotipi del genere buffo (bassi ciarlieri, tenori e soprani lirici,
cavatine in
due movimenti senza il ‘tempo di mezzo’, ricorso al recitativo secco e ai
dialoghi in dialetto napoletano), ricorre spesso ai ‘parlanti’ e a una
scrittura
strumentale densa. Tra le pagine più riuscite dell’opera (che fu ripresa con
successo a Milano al Teatro Re nel 1847, alla Scala nel ’48 e al Carcano nel
’49) spiccano il quartetto "Io dirò se nel gestire", l’aria "Ah! figliuol;
date mente" (Don Bucefalo), il concertato "Chi mi ha tolto, poveretta"
(finale del secondo atto) e la gustosissima scena della prova d’orchestra
"Trai
trai trai larà larà" (Don Bucefalo).
Appendix 3 “Santa Chiara” melodrama per musica di SAXE COBURG
Covent Garden, 1877 (two performances). Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha
lived
from 1818 to 1893, and reigned over his pocket-sized dukedom from 1844 to his
death. The Coburgs were not very rich, but they were well-connected. One of
Ernst's paternal uncles, Leopold, became the first king of the Belgians; wo
cousins ended up as prince consort of Portugal and the first Czar of modern
Bulgaria,respectively. But the one who truly hit the jackpot was his own
brother (some say half-brother) Albrecht, better known as Albert, who married
Queen
Victoria. Ernst II is thus the great-great-great uncle of all the British
sovereigns since Edward VII - including the current Queen. He was also a
composer of music, and especially opera. Apparently, he composed no less than
5:
ZAIRE (1846), TONY (1848), CASILDA (1851), SANTA CHIARA (1854), DIANA VON
SOLANGE (1858). Ernst didn't have to buy an opera house or a company because,
as
hereditary duke, he already owned one - the Hoftheater in Gotha. Needless to
say, there was no problem for him to have his work staged there – at least,
after his accession (it is not by chance that the first of his operas had its
premiere there the year following his coming to the throne). He was a very
well-known figure in the music world of his day. One of the reasons was his
genuine love for music and his ability to recognize quality. In spite of the
more or less conservative character of his own music (heavily influenced by
Bellini and Donizetti, according to the Grove), he was particularly interested
in the avant-garde of his day. From that point of view, it is interesting to
note that the world premiere of SANTA CHIARA was conducted by Franz Liszt
(that may have something to do with the Franciscan subject - a strange choice
for
the Queen of England's brother-in-law, when one comes to think of it,
though!...) He went as far as offering the artistic directorship of his
theater to
Richard Wagner - who refused, but the fact is that, as a result of Ernst's
personal taste for Wagner's early works, those were often staged in Gotha as
early as the late 1850s. SANTA CHIARA, for one, was an international success
of sorts. It was staged in various German theaters, and was performed no less
than 60 times at the Paris Opera in the years following its premiere. Now, as
for the causes of that success, they apparently had something to do both
with politics and with money. I remember a funny story of the duke
subsidizing
a travelling opera company to have his operas performed throughout Europe,
and even in the New World. I even seem to remember that the company in
question eventually ended up in New York City and that DIANA VON SOLANGE was
performed once at the Old Met, in the very early years of the house, and
immediately
withdrawn after patrons had complained and the score got devastating reviews
in the local press.
Fig. 1: Ladies Wearing Crinolines at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent
Garden, 1859 -- Fig. 2: Royal Italian Opera, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert,
and
Emperor and Empress of France, 1855
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