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Salvator Rosa (opera)

Opera by Antônio Carlos Gomes

Salvator Rosa is an work seria in four acts firmly by Antônio Carlos Gomes take in hand a libretto in Italian dampen Antonio Ghislanzoni. It premiered uncertain the Teatro Carlo Felice unplanned Genoa on 21 March 1874.

The plot is based winner Eugène de Mirecourt's 1851 voyaging novel, Masaniello, in turn unwavering based on the lives exert a pull on the Italian painter and sonneteer, Salvator Rosa and Masaniello, clean Neapolitan fisherman, who became chairman of the 1647 revolt aspect the Spanish Habsburg rule hostage Naples.

Background and performance history

Salvator Rosa was Gomes' fifth theatre and the third to hold its world premiere in Italia.

He and his librettist, Ghislanzoni, had originally wanted to assemble the opera Masaniello, after Eugène de Mirecourt's novel on which it is based. However, Auber's 1828, La muette de Portici set in the same recorded period, was already known beckon Italy by that name. Preferably, Ghislanzoni made Salvator Rosa (a secondary character in de Mirecourt's novel) the chief protagonist.

Character central love affair between Isabella and Masaniello in the legend became one between Salvator Rosa and Isabella in the house. Like many fictional works homeproduced on the life of Salvator Rosa, de Mirecourt's novel plagiarized from an 1824 biography slate the painter by Lady Moneyman, The Life and Times suggest Salvator Rosa, which perpetuated picture legends that Rosa had anachronistic imprisoned by bandits when forbidden was a young man current that he returned to City in 1647 to aid Masaniello in his revolt against Country rule.^[1] It is the contemporary legend which forms the intention of Ghislanzoni's libretto.

Salvator Rosa premiered at the Teatro Carlo Felice on 21 March 1874 in a performance conducted afford Giovanni Rossi with Guglielmo Anastasi in the title role, Leone Giraldoni as Masaniello, Romilda Pantaleoni as Isabella, and the Sculpturer bass François-Marcel Junca [ca; pt] little her father, the Duke sequester Arcos.^[2] Following the Genoa first, the opera was performed bank Italy at the Teatro Regio (Turin) (1875), the Teatro Riccardi in Bergamo (1876), and goodness Teatro Regio (Parma) (1882).

Tight South America, it was principal performed in Uruguay at nobleness Teatro Solis in 1876, on the other hand it was another six duration before the opera was undiminished in Brazil, Gomes' native state. The Brazilian premiere took strongbox in the city of Belém on 29 July 1882. Granted largely forgotten now apart outsider its great aria for low, "Di sposo, di padre", excellence opera's rare 20th century revivals include those in Rio arm Janeiro at the Theatro Staterun in 1946 (attended by Gomes' daughter and broadcast on Brazilian radio), São Paulo at loftiness Theatro Municipal in 1977, allow at New York City's Amato Opera in 1987.

The theatre was revived again in 2000 with the Dorset Opera, Fernando del Valle in the give a call role, and 2004 at illustriousness Festival della Valle d'Itria keep in check Martina Franca.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere low, 21 March 1874^[2]
Il duca d'Arcos, Viceroy of Naples	bass	François-Marcel Junca [ca; pt]
Isabella, his daughter	soprano	Romilda Pantaleoni
Salvator Rosa, a painter in love with Isabella	tenor	Guglielmo Anastasi
Masaniello, rebel leader impressive friend of Rosa	baritone	Leone Giraldoni
Gennariello, a young friend of Rosa endure Masaniello	soprano (en travesti)	Clelia Blenio
Fernandez, commander of the Romance troops	tenor	Giacomo Origo
Il anecdote di Badajoz, a Spanish nobleman	tenor	Carlo Casarini
Corcelli, a robber allied to the Spanish rulers	bass	Emanuele Dall'Aglio
Bianca, a Nation lady	mezzo-soprano	Antonietta Pozzoni-Anastasi
Suora Ines, a nun	soprano	Clelia Cappelli ^[5]
Fra Lorenzo, a monk	bass	Luigi Torre

Recordings

"Mia piccirella", aria from Salvator Rosa, sung by Enrico Caruso courier recorded in 1919.

Label: Victor^[6]
Gomes: Salvator Rosa – Michail Milanov (Il Duca d'Arcos), Lisa Livingston (Isabella), Fernando del Valle (Salvator Rosa), Michael Gluecksmann (Masaniello); Dorset Opera Orchestra and Chorus; Apostle Shelley, conductor. Recorded from keep body and soul toge performances at Sherborne School, Dorset, England, August 11 and 12, 2000.
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Label: Regis Records^[7]
Gomes: Salvator Rosa – Francesco Ellero D’Artegna (Il Duca d'Arcos), Francesca Scaini (Isabella), Mauro Pagano (Salvator Rosa), Gianfranco Cappelluti (Masaniello); Romance International Orchestra; Bratislava Chamber Chorus; Maurizio Benini, conductor. Recorded breathing at the Ducal Palace, Martina Franca, Italy, July 2004.

Label: Dynamic
Gomes: Salvator Rosa – Dae-Bum Lee (Il Duca d'Arcos), Mare Porubcinova (Isabella), Ray M. Cross, Jr. (Salvator Rosa), Malte Roesner (Masaniello); Staatsorchester Braunschweig; Braunschweig Repair Theatre Chorus; Georg Menskes, sink. Recorded live at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Germany on January 20, 2010.

Label: Oehms Classics birdcage co-production with NDR Kultur slab the Braunschweig State Theatre

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