Felice Romani was an Italian

Italy

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 poet

Poet

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 and scholar of literature and mythology

Mythology

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 who wrote many libretto

Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...

s for the opera composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

s Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

 and Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...

. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio

Metastasio

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...

 and Boito

Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele...

.

Biography

Born Giuseppe Felice Romani to a bourgeois family in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, he studied law and literature in Pisa

Pisa

Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...

 and Genoa. At the University of Genoa

University of Genoa

The University of Genoa is one of the largest universities in Italy.Located in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, the university was founded in 1471. It currently has about 40,000 students, 1,800 teaching and research staff and about 1,580 administrative staff.- Campus :The University of Genoa is...

 he translated French literature and, with a colleague, prepared a six-volume dictionary of mythology and antiquities, including the history of the Celts in Italy. Romani's expertise in French and antiquity is reflected in the libretti he wrote; the majority are based on French literature and many, such as Norma

Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...

, use mythological sources.

After failing to obtain a post at the University of Genoa, he appears to have travelled to France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Spain

Spain

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, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 and Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 before returning to Milan

Milan

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 in either 1812 or 1813. There he became friends with important figures in the literary and musical world. He turned down the post of court poet in Vienna

Vienna

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, and began instead a career as opera librettist. He wrote two librettos for the composer Simon Mayr

Simon Mayr

Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...

, which resulted in his appointment as the librettist for La Scala

La Scala

La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...

. Romani became the most highly regarded of all Italian librettists of his age, producing nearly one hundred. In spite of his interest in French literature, he refused to work in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

.

As a rule, Romani did not create his own stories; he kept up with what was happening in the Paris theatre and adapted plays which were popular there, but this was not always a safe strategy, given the vague intellectual property rights legislation of the time. In one case, Romani prepared a libretto based on the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

 for the opera Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia (opera)

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramma, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December 1833 at La Scala, Milan with...

 by Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

, but when it was staged in Paris in 1840, Hugo obtained an injunction against further productions. The libretto was then rewritten and retitled La Rinegata, with the Italian characters changed to Turks.

Romani wrote the librettos for Bellini's Il pirata

Il pirata

Il pirata is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrando by Charles Maturin...

, La straniera

La straniera

La straniera is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, based on L'étrangère by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt...

, Zaira

Zaira

Zaira is a popular female name in Spain and Italy. Its main meanings are "princess" in Irish and Hebrew and "rose" in Arabic....

, I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an Italian opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo. This was based on Italian sources rather than taken directly from Shakespeare...

, La sonnambula

La sonnambula

La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.The first...

, Norma

Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...

 and Beatrice di Tenda

Beatrice di Tenda

Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by Carlo Tedaldi-Fores...

, for Rossini's Il turco in Italia

Il turco in Italia

Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani...

 and Bianca e Falliero

Bianca e Falliero

Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.-Performance history:The opera premiered on December 26,...

, and Donizetti's Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both telling of the life of Anne Boleyn...

 and L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...

 (which he adapted from Eugène Scribe

Eugène Scribe

Augustin Eugène Scribe , was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" . This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years.-Biography:...

's Le philtre). He also wrote a libretto (originally for composer Adalbert Gyrowetz

Adalbert Gyrowetz

Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec was a Bohemian composer.- Biography :...

) that Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

 used for his early comedy Un giorno di regno

Un giorno di regno

Un giorno di regno, ossia il finto Stanislao is an operatic melodramma giocoso in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the play Le faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval...

.

Romani was considered an ideal match for Bellini, who is quoted as having said: "Give me good verses and I will give you good music". Dramatic, even extravagant "situations" expressed in verses "designed to portray the passions in the liveliest manner" was what Bellini was looking for in a libretto, according to a letter to Florimo, August 4, 1834, and he found them in Romani.

The two, however, had a falling out over missed deadlines for Beatrice di Tenda.. After setting I puritani

I puritani

I puritani is an opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini. It was his last opera. Its libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at...

 to a libretto by Carlo Pepoli, Bellini was determined not to compose any more Italian operas with anyone but Romani. I puritani was his last opera; he died less than a year after its première. Romani mourned him deeply and wrote an obituary in which he expressed his profound regrets over their disagreement.

In 1834 Romani became editor of the Gazzetta Ufficiale Piemontese to which he contributed literary criticism. He retained the post, with a break 1849–1854, until his death, in Moneglia

Moneglia

Moneglia is a comune in the Province of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about 50 km southeast of Genoa. It is a tourist resort on the Riviera di Levante.-Main sights:...

, (in the region of Liguria

Liguria

Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and good food.-Geography:...

, Italy). A volume of his lyric poems was published in 1841.

Libretti

For each libretto the composer/s are listed who set it to music, the date of the first performance, and the new title where applicable.

• La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1813)
  • Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
    
     (1818)
  • Tomás Genovés y Lapetra, Enrico e Clotilde (1831)
• Medea in Corinto
  Medea in Corinto
  Medea in Corinto is an opera in Italian by the composer Simon Mayr. It takes the form of a melodramma tragico in two acts. The libretto, by Felice Romani, is based on the Greek myth of Medea and the plays on the theme by Euripides and Pierre Corneille...
  
  
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1813)
  • Prospero Selli (1839)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
    , Medea, revision by Salvadore Cammarano (1851)
• Aureliano in Palmira
  Aureliano in Palmira
  Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." The libretto has generally been attributed to Giuseppe Felice Romani, but sometimes to the otherwise...
  
  
  • Gioachino Rossini (1813)
• Atar
  Atar
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   ossia Il serraglio di Ormus
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1814)
  • Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...
    
    , Atar ou O serralho de Ormuz (1820)
  • Luiz Antonio Miró, Atar ou O serralho d'Ormus (1836)
• Il Turco in Italia
  Il turco in Italia
  Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani...
  
  
  • Gioachino Rossini (1814)
• Le due duchesse subtitled La caccia ai lupi
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1814)
  • Filippo Celli (1824)
• L'ira di Achille
  • Giuseppe Nicolini
    Giuseppe Nicolini
    Giuseppe Nicolini was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to religious music...
    
     (1814)
• La testa di bronzo or La capanna solitaria
  • Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of Swiss chocolatiers who had emigrated from the canton of Ticino...
    
     (1816)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1827)
  • Giacomo Fontemaggi (1835)
  • Vincenzo Mela (1855)
• Maometto
  • Peter von Winter (1817)
• Rodrigo di Valenza
  • Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
    
     (1817)
  • Ferdinando Orlandi
    Ferdinando Orlandi
    Ferdinando Orlandi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. Born in Parma, he was a pupil of organist Gaspare Rugarli and composer Ferdinando Paer. He also studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples with Nicola Sala and Giacomo Tritto. In 1800 he took a position at...
    
     (1820)
  • Filippo Chimeri, Elmonda di Valenza (1845)
• Mennone e Zemira
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1817)
• La gioventù di Cesare
  • 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:...
    
     (1814)
• Le zingare dell'Asturia
  • Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of Swiss chocolatiers who had emigrated from the canton of Ticino...
    
     (1817)
• Adele di Lusignano
  • Michele Carafa
    Michele Carafa
    Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
    
     (1817)
  • Ramón Carnicer
    Ramón Carnicer
    Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile....
    
     (1819)
• I due Valdomiri
  • Peter von Winter (1817)
• Gianni di Parigi
  Gianni di Parigi
  Gianni di Parigi is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Felice Romani, which had been previously used by Francesco Morlacchi for an opera of the same name...
  
  
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
     (1818)
  • Giovanni Antonio Speranza (1836)
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (set to music 1831, first performance 1839)
• Il finto Stanislao
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz
    Adalbert Gyrowetz
    Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec was a Bohemian composer.- Biography :...
    
     (1818)
  • Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
    
    , Un giorno di regno (1840)
• Il barone di Dolshein
  • Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
    
     (1818)
  • Franz Schoberlechner (1827)
• Danao
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1818)
  • Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani was an Italian opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career...
    
    , Danao re d'Argo (1827)
• Gl'Illinesi
  • Francesco Basily (1819)
  • Francesco Sampieri (1823)
  • Luigi Viviani, L'eroe francese (1826)
  • Feliciano Strepponi (1829)
  • Pietro Antonio Coppola
    Pietro Antonio Coppola
    Pietro Antonio Coppola was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Enna, he was trained by his father and at the Naples Conservatory. He is chiefly known for his many operas, of which his most famous, Nina pazza per amore, premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome in February 1835...
    
    , Gli Illinesi (1835)
  • Francisco Gomez
    Francisco Gomez
    Francisco Gomez is a retired American soccer player.-Club career:Gomez joined the Kansas City Wizards in 1999, after playing briefly with the California Jaguars of the A-League...
    
    , Irza (1845)
• Clemenza d'Entragues
  • Vittorio Trento (1819)
• Il falegname di Livonia
  • Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
    
     (1819)
• Il califo e la schiava
  • Francesco Basily (1819)
  • Gioachino Rossini, Adina, revision by Gherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini (1826)
  • Giovanni Quaquerini (1842)
• Bianca e Falliero
  Bianca e Falliero
  Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.-Performance history:The opera premiered on December 26,...
  
   or Il consiglio dei tre
  • Gioachino Rossini (1819)
• Vallace or L'eroe scozzese
  • Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
    
     (1820)
• La sacerdotessa d'Irminsul
  • Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
    
     (1820)
• I due Figaro or Il soggetto di una commedia
  • Michele Carafa
    Michele Carafa
    Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
    
     (1820)
  • Giovanni Panizza (1824)
  • Dionigi Brogialdi (1825)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (composed: 1826/staged: 1835)
  • Giovanni Antonio Speranza (1839)
• Margherita d'Anjou
  Margherita d'Anjou
  Margherita d’Anjou is an operatic melodramma semiseria in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Italian libretto was by Felice Romani after a text by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt. It is the fourth of Meyerbeer's Italian operas and his first real success.-Performance history:Margherita d’Anjou...
  
  
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
    
     (1820)
• Donna Aurora or Il romanzo all'improvviso
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
     (1821)
• La voce misteriosa
  • Giuseppe Mosca (1821)
  • Carlo Mellara (1823)
• Atalia
  Atalia
  Atalia is an Israeli film of 1984, adapted from a story by Yitzhak Ben Ner.-Crew:* Film Director: Akiva Tevet* Screen Writer:Tzvi Kratzner * Producers: Danny Schik, Nathan Hakeny...
  
  
  • Simon Mayr
    Simon Mayr
    Johann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
    
     (1822)
• L'esule di Granata
  L'esule di Granata
  L'esule di Granata is a melodramma in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Italian libretto was by Felice Romani based on the rivalries between the Zegridi and the Abenceraggi factions in the last days of the kingdom of Granada...
  
  
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
    
     (1822)
  • Giovanni Tadolini
    Giovanni Tadolini
    Giovanni Tadolini was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably best known for completing six sections of Rossini's 1833 version of the Stabat mater after the latter fell sick...
    
    , Almanzor (1827)
• Adele ed Emerico ossia Il posto abbandonato
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1822; revised 1826)
• Chiara e Serafina subtitled Il pirata
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1822)
  • Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato was an Italian composer, music teacher, and writer.Mazzucato was born in Udine. Trained at the Padua Conservatory, he composed eight operas between 1834 and 1843, of which his most successful was Esmeralda...
    
    , I corsari, revision by Temistocle Solera
    Temistocle Solera
    Temistocle Solera was an Italian opera composer and librettist.He was born at Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughout his life he actively participated in anti-Austrian resistance. At one point, he was incarcerated for his...
    
     (1840)
• Amleto
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1822)
• Chi fa così, fa bene
  • Feliciano Strepponi (1823)
• Abufar, ossia La famiglia araba
  • Michele Carafa
    Michele Carafa
    Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
    
     (1823)
  • Manuel García, El Abufar (1827)
• Francesca da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.-Arranged marriage:...
  
  
  • Feliciano Strepponi (1823)
  • Luigi Carlini (1825)
  • Massimiliano Quilici (1829)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (written 1830; unperformed)
  • Giuseppe Staffa
    Giuseppe Staffa
    Giuseppe Staffa was an Italian composer and conductor. He is best remembered for his seven operas which he composed between 1827 and 1852. He was active as a conductor in Naples at the Teatro del Fondo and Teatro Nuovo. One of his students was Enrico Bevignani.-References:...
    
     (1831)
  • Giuseppe Fournier (1832)
  • Giuseppe Tamburini (1835)
  • Emanuele Borgatta (1837)
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
     (composta nel 1840, incompiuta)
  • Francesco Canneti (1843)
  • Giovanni Franchini (1857)
• Egilda di Provenza
  • 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:...
    
     (1823)
  • Evangelista Pareira da Costa, Egilda de Provenca (1827)
• Amina
  Amina
  Amina Sukhera was a Hausa Muslim Warrior Queen of Zazzau , in what is now north central Nigeria. She is the subject of many legends, but is widely believed by historians to have been a real ruler, though contemporary evidence about her is limited...
  
   or L'innocenza perseguitata
  • Giuseppe Rastrelli (1824)
  • Antonio D'Antoni (1825)
  • Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini is a San Marinese footballer who currently plays for S.S. Murata and the San Marino national football team-References:...
    
    , Amina, subtitled L'orfanella di Ginevra, revision 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...
    
     (1825)
• Elena e Malvina
  • Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva
    Carlo Evasio Soliva was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of Swiss chocolatiers who had emigrated from the canton of Ticino...
    
     (1824)
  • Ramón Carnicer
    Ramón Carnicer
    Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile....
    
    , Elena e Malvina (1829)
  • Francesco Vincenzo Schira (1832)
  • Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period. He was active in Bologna, as well as Ferrara, Modena, Pesaro, and Venice. His masterpiece is a series of monumental reliefs for the Capella di San Domenico in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice Giuseppe Mazza (1653–1741)...
    
     (1834)
  • Egisto Vignozzi (1835)
• Il sonnambulo
  • Michele Carafa
    Michele Carafa
    Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
    
     (1824)
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1830)
  • Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini is a San Marinese footballer who currently plays for S.S. Murata and the San Marino national football team-References:...
    
     (1834)
  • Luiz Antonio Miró, O sonambulo (1835)
  • Salvatore Agnelli
    Salvatore Agnelli
    Salvatore Agnelli was an Italian composer. He was born at Palermo, studied at the Naples Conservatory, under Furno, Zingarelli, and Donizetti....
    
    , Il fantasma (1842)
  • Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani was an Italian opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career...
    
    , Il fantasma (1843)
• Gli avventurieri
  • Giacomo Cordella (1825)
  • Luigi Felice Rossi
    Luigi Felice Rossi
    Luigi Felice Rossi was an Italian composer, music teacher, musicologist, and music theorist. He mainly composed instrumental and sacred music. He did write one opera, Gli avventurieri , which premiered successfully in Turin in 1835...
    
     (1835)
  • Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini
    Carlo Valentini is a San Marinese footballer who currently plays for S.S. Murata and the San Marino national football team-References:...
    
     (1836)
  • Antonio Buzzolla
    Antonio Buzzolla
    Antonio Buzzolla was an Italian composer and conductor. A native of Adria, he studied in Venice, and later worked with Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante. He composed five operas, but was better known in his lifetime for ariettas and canzonettas in the Venetian dialect...
    
     (1842)
  • Antonio Cagnoni
    Antonio Cagnoni
    Antonio Cagnoni was an Italian composer. Primarily known for his operas, his work is characterized by his use of leitmotifs and moderately dissonant harmonies. In addition to writing music for the stage, he composed a modest amount of sacred music, most notably a Requiem in 1888...
    
    , Amori e trappole, revision by Marco Marcelliano Marcello (1850)
• Giulietta e Romeo
  Giulietta e Romeo
  Giulietta e Romeo is a dramma per musica by composer Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli with an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa after the 1530 novella of the same name by Luigi da Porto...
  
  
  • Nicola Vaccaj (1825)
  • Eugenio Torriani (1828)
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
    , I Capuleti e i Montecchi
    I Capuleti e i Montecchi
    I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an Italian opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo. This was based on Italian sources rather than taken directly from Shakespeare...
    
     (1830)
• Il montanaro
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1827)
  • Pietro Campiuti, L'incognito (1832)
  • Giovan Battista Cagnola, Il podestà di Gorgonzola (1854)
• La selva d'Hermanstadt
  • Felice Frasi (1827)
• Il pirata
  Il pirata
  Il pirata is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrando by Charles Maturin...
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1827)
• Gastone di Foix
  • Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani was an Italian opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career...
    
     (1827)
  • Franciszek Mirecki, Cornelio Bentivoglio (1844)
• Il divorzio Persiano subtitled Il gran bazzarro di Bassora
  • Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
    
     (1828)
  • Feliciano Strepponi, L'ullà di Bassora (1831)
  • Giuseppe Gerli, Il pitocco (1834)
  • Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period. He was active in Bologna, as well as Ferrara, Modena, Pesaro, and Venice. His masterpiece is a series of monumental reliefs for the Capella di San Domenico in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice Giuseppe Mazza (1653–1741)...
    
     (1836)
• I saraceni in Sicilia ovvero Eufemio di Messina
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
     (1828)
  • Daniele Nicelli, Il proscritto di Messina (1829)
  • Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani
    Giuseppe Persiani was an Italian opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career...
    
    , Eufemio di Messina ovvero La distruzione di Catania (1829)
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
    , Il rinnegato (1832)
  • Ramón Carnicer
    Ramón Carnicer
    Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile....
    
    , Eufemio da Messina o Los sarracenos en Sicilia (1832)
  • Alessandro Curmy, Il proscritto di Messina (1843)
  • Angelo Agostini
    Angelo Agostini
    Angelo Agostini was an illustrator, journalist and founder of several publications, and although born in Italy, is considered the first Brazilian cartoonist.-Biography:...
    
    , Il rinnegato (1858)
• La regina di Golconda
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1828)
• Colombo
  • Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi
    Francesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
    
     (1828)
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1829)
  • Ramón Carnicer
    Ramón Carnicer
    Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile....
    
    , Cristoforo Colombo (1831)
  • Luigi Bottesini, Cristoforo Colombo (1848)
  • Carlo Emanuele De Barbieri, Columbus (1848)
  • Vincenzo Mela, Cristoforo Colombo (1857)
  • Felicita Casella
    Felicita Casella
    Felicita Casella née Lacombe was an Italian singer and composer of French birth. She was born at Bourges, the sister of Louis Lacombe...
    
    , Cristoforo Colombo (1865)
  • Giuseppe Marcora (1869)
• La straniera
  La straniera
  La straniera is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, based on L'étrangère by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt...
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1829)
• Rosmonda
  • Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...
    
     (1829)
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
    , Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
    Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
    Rosmonda d'Inghilterra is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani originally for Coccia's Rosmunda...
    
     (1834)
  • Antonio Belisario (1835)
  • Pietro Tonassi e Pietro Collavo, Il castello di Woodstock (1839)
  • Otto Nicolai, Enrico II (1839)
• Saul
  Saul
  -People:Saul is a given/first name in English, the Anglicized form of the Hebrew name Shaul from the Hebrew Bible:* Saul , including people with this given namein the Bible:* Saul , a king of Edom...
  
  
  • Nicola Vaccaj (1829)
  • Ferdinando Ceccherini (1843)
  • Giovanni Antonio Speranza (1844)
• Zaira
  Zaira
  Zaira is a popular female name in Spain and Italy. Its main meanings are "princess" in Irish and Hebrew and "rose" in Arabic....
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1829)
  • Alessandro Gandini (1829)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1831)
  • Antonio Mami (1845)
• Giovanna Shore
  • Carlo Conti (1829)
  • Lauro Rossi
    Lauro Rossi
    Lauro Rossi , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi .Rossi studied in Naples and produced his first opera there...
    
     (1836)
  • Enrico Lacroix (1845)
  • Vincenzo Bonnetti (1853)
• La rappresaglia
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1829)
• Bianca di Belmonte
  • Luigi Riesck (1829)
  • Tomás Genovés y Lapetra (1833)
• Annibale in Torino
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1830)
• Anna Bolena
  Anna Bolena
  Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both telling of the life of Anne Boleyn...
  
  
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1830)
• Il romito di Provenza
  • Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali
    Pietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
    
     (1831)
  • M. A. Sauli (1846)
• La sonnambula
  La sonnambula
  La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.The first...
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1831)
• Il disertore svizzero aka La nostalgia
  • Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre...
    
     (1831)
  • Lauro Rossi
    Lauro Rossi
    Lauro Rossi , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi .Rossi studied in Naples and produced his first opera there...
    
     (1832)
  • Angelo Pellegrini
    Angelo Pellegrini
    Angelo Pellegrini was an author of books about the pleasures of growing and making your own food and wine, and about the Italian immigrant experience. He was also a professor of English Literature at the University of Washington. Pellegrini's family immigrated from Tuscany to McCleary,...
    
     (1841)
  • Giovanni Battista Meiners (1842)
• La neve
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1831)
• Norma
  Norma (opera)
  Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1831)
• I normanni a Parigi
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1832)
• Ugo, Conte di Parigi
  Ugo, conte di Parigi
  Ugo, conte di Parigi is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis's Blanche d'Aquitaine...
  
  
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1832)
  • Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato was an Italian composer, music teacher, and writer.Mazzucato was born in Udine. Trained at the Padua Conservatory, he composed eight operas between 1834 and 1843, of which his most successful was Esmeralda...
    
     (1843)
• L'elisir d'amore
  L'elisir d'amore
  L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...
  
  
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1832)
• Ismalia ossia Morte ed amore
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1832)
  • Ramón Carnicer
    Ramón Carnicer
    Ramon Carnicer i Batlle was a Catalan composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile....
    
     (1838)
  • Vicenc Cuyás y Borés, La fattucchiera (1838)
• Il segreto
  • Luigi Maiocchi (1833)
  • Placido Mandanici
    Placido Mandanici
    Placido Mandanici was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas. He graduated from the Music Lyceum in Palermo , and then studied at Naples with Pietro Raimondi. In 1829 his first opera , L'isola disabitata, premiered in Naples...
    
     (1836)
• Caterina di Guisa
  • Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...
    
     (1833)
  • Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza
    Giuseppe Mazza was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo period. He was active in Bologna, as well as Ferrara, Modena, Pesaro, and Venice. His masterpiece is a series of monumental reliefs for the Capella di San Domenico in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice Giuseppe Mazza (1653–1741)...
    
     (1836)
  • Luigi Savi (1838)
  • Fabio Campana
    Fabio Campana
    Fabio Campana was an Italian composer, opera director, conductor, and singing teacher who composed eight operas which premiered between 1838 and 1869. He was born in Livorno, the city where his first two operas premiered, but in the early 1850s he settled in London...
    
     (1838)
  • Francesco Chiaromonte (1850)
  • Antonio Gandolfi (1859)
  • Cenobio Paniagua y Vasquez (1859)
  • Beniamino Rossi (1861)
  • Giacomo Nascimbene, Enrico di Guisa (1868)
• Il conte d'Essex
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1833)
• Parisina
  Parisina
  Parisina is a poem written by Byron. It was published on 13 February 1816 and probably written between 1812 and 1815.It is based on a story related by Edward Gibbon in his Miscellaneous Works about Niccolò III d'Este, one of the dukes of Ferrara who lived in the fifteenth century...
  
  
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1833)
  • Tomás E. Giribaldi (1878)
• Beatrice di Tenda
  Beatrice di Tenda
  Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by Carlo Tedaldi-Fores...
  
  
  • Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Bellini
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
    
     (1833)
  • Rinaldo Ticci (1837)
  • Frederico Guimarães, Beatriz (1882)
• Il contrabbandiere
  • Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre...
    
     (1833)
  • Natale Perelli (1842)
• I due sergenti
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1833)
  • Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato
    Alberto Mazzucato was an Italian composer, music teacher, and writer.Mazzucato was born in Udine. Trained at the Padua Conservatory, he composed eight operas between 1834 and 1843, of which his most successful was Esmeralda...
    
     (1841)
  • Gualtiero Sanelli (1842)
• Lucrezia Borgia
  Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
  Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramma, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December 1833 at La Scala, Milan with...
  
  
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
     (1833)
• La figlia dell'arciere
  • Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...
    
    , atto III di Domenico Andreotti (1834)
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
    
    , Adelia
    Adelia (opera)
    Adelia, o La figlia dell'arciere is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani and Girolamo Marini...
    
    , Third Act by Girolamo Maria Marini (1841)
  • Carlo Pedrotti
    Carlo Pedrotti
    Carlo Pedrotti was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci.-Early life:Pedrotti was born in Verona, where he studied music...
    
     (1844)
  • Valdemaro de Barbarikine, Adelia (1877)
• Un'avventura di Scaramuccia
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1834)
• Emma d'Antiochia
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1834)
  • Giovanni Bracciolini, Emma e Ruggero (1838)
  • Vincenzo Pontani, Emma e Ruggero (1852)
  • Carlo Lovati-Cozzulani, Alda (1866)
  • Ercole Cavazza, Emma (1877)
• Un episodio del San Michele
  • Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni
    Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre...
    
     (1834)
  • Giuseppe Concone (1836)
  • Luigi Savi, L'avaro (1840)
  • Ermanno Picchi, Il tre di novembre (1844)
  • Giuseppe Lombardini, La sartina e l'usurajo (1853)
  • Pietro Repetto, Un episodio del San Michele (1855)
  • Guglielmo Quarenghi
    Guglielmo Quarenghi
    Guglielmo Quarenghi was an Italian composer and cellist. From 1839 to 1842 he studied with Vincenzo Merighi at the Milan Conservatory. In 1850 he became principal cellist at La Scala, and in 1851 a professor at the conservatory. Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Alberto Mazzucato, Quarenghi formed...
    
    , Il dì di San Michele (1863)
  • Carlo Brizzi, L'avaro (1877)
• Uggero il danese
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1834)
• La gioventù di Enrico V
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1834)
• Francesca Donato subtitled Corinto distrutta
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1835)
  • Pietro Raimondi
    Pietro Raimondi
    Pietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras...
    
     (1842)
• Odio e amore
  • Mariano Obiols (1837)
  • Alfonso Cosentino, Laurina (1858)
• La solitaria delle Asturie or La Spagna ricuperata
  • Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia
    Carlo Coccia was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria.- Life and career :...
    
     (1838)
  • Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante
    Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
    
     (1840)
  • Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci
    Luigi Ricci , was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works.- Life :...
    
     (1845)
  • Giuseppe Sordelli (1846)
  • Giuseppe Winter, Matilde di Scozia (1852)
• La spia ovvero Il merciaiuolo americano
  • Angelo Villanis (1850)
• Edita di Lorno
  • Giulio Litta
    Giulio Litta
    Giulio Litta was an Italian composer. He was trained at the Milan Conservatory where his first opera, Bianca di Santafiora, premiered in 1843. He composed several more operas, most of which premiered at theatres in Milan. His last opera, Il violino di Cremona, was heard at La Scala in...
    
     (1853)
• Cristina di Svezia
  • Sigismund Thalberg (1855)