Eduardo e Cristina
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Eduardo e Cristina is an opera
Opera
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tic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian
Italian language
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 libretto
Libretto
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 originally written by Giovanni Schmidt
Giovanni Schmidt
-Life:He moved to Naples whilst still young and stayed there his whole life. Between 1800 and 1840 he wrote libretti for 45 operas, especially for the Teatro San Carlo, for which he was official poet. He and Andrea Leone Tottola were the two librettists who dominated theatrical life in Naples in...

 for Odoardo e Cristina (1810), an opera by Stefano Pavesi
Stefano Pavesi
Stefano Pavesi was an Italian composer.Born in Casaletto Vaprio, he is best known for his many operas.. He died at Crema, Lombardy in 1850.-References:...

, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola
Andrea Leone Tottola
Andrea Leone Tottola was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.It is not known when or where he was born...

 and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.

This pastiche work was composed in a great hurry for a first performance arranged less than a month after the premiere of Ermione
Ermione
Ermione is a tragic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine.- Performance history :...

. Rossini borrowed some of the music from his other works, Adelaide di Borgogna
Adelaide di Borgogna
Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt...

, Ricciardo e Zoraide
Ricciardo e Zoraide
Ricciardo e Zoraide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Berio de Salsa...

, as well as Ermione.

Performance history

Eduardo e Cristina was first performed at the Teatro San Benedetto
Teatro San Benedetto
The Teatro San Benedetto was a theatre in Venice, particularly prominent in the operatic life of the city in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It saw the premieres of over 140 operas, including Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and was the theatre of choice for the presentation of opera seria until...

, Venice
Venice
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, on 24 April 1819.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, April 24, 1819
(Conductor: )
Carlo, King of Sweden tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

Eliodoro Bianchi
Cristina, his daughter, secret wife of Eduardo soprano
Soprano
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Rosa Morandi
Eduardo, general of the Swedish army contralto
Contralto
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Carolina Cortesi
Giacomo, royal prince of Scotland bass Luciano Bianchi
Atlei, captain of the guard, friend of Eduardo bass Vincenzo Fracalini
Gustavo, small child of Eduardo and Cristina silent

Recordings

Year Cast
(Carlo, Eduardo, Giacomo, Atlei)
Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra
Label
1997 Omar Jara,
Eliseda Dumitru,
Konstantin Gorny,
Jorge Orlando Gómez
Francesco Corti,
I Virtuosi di Praga
(Recording of a performance at the Wildbad Festival, July)
Audio CD: Bongiovanni
Cat: GB 2205/2206-2

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