I cavalieri di Ekebù
I Cavalieri di Ekebù | |
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Opera by Riccardo Zandonai | |
![]() Set design for act 1 in the premiere | |
Librettist | Arturo Rossato |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings Saga |
Premiere | 7 March 1925 (1925-03-07) La Scala Milan |
I cavalieri di Ekebù is an opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai to an Italian libretto by Arturo Rossato [it]. The opera is based on Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf's 1891 debut novel Gösta Berlings Saga. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 7 March 1925. The opera was staged in Nuremberg in 1929, and the Vereingigten Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach presented a production by Tony Palmer in 1987.[1]
Roles
Cast | Voice type | Premiere, 7 March 1925 Conductor: – Arturo Toscanini) |
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Giosta Berling | tenor | Franco Lo Giudice |
The commander | mezzo-soprano | Elvira Mari-Casazza |
Anna | soprano | Maria Luisa Fanelli |
Anna's mother | mezzo-soprano | Lina Lanza |
Sintram | bass | Fernando Autori |
Cristiano | baritone | Benvenuto Franci |
Fuchs | baritone | Pariso Votto |
Everardo | baritone | Aristide Baracchi |
Wemburgo | baritone | Chase Baromeo |
Samzelius | bass | Carlo Walter |
Berencreuz | bass | Amleto Galli |
Kristoffer | bass | Giuseppe Menni |
Liecrona | tenor | Alfredo Tedeschi |
Rutger | tenor | Emilio Venturini |
Kenvellere | tenor | Giovanni Genzardi |
Røster | tenor | Palmiro Domenichetti |
Julius | tenor | Giuseppe Nessi |
Hostess | mezzo-soprano | Ida Mannarini |
A girl | soprano | Anita Apolloni |
References
- ^ Luys, Thomas. West Germany - Zandonai rediscovered. Opera, October 1987, p1192-93.
Sources
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "I cavalieri di Ekebù, 7 March 1925". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- www.italianopera.org
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