Il Cid della Spagna - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Il Cid della Spagna is a dramma per musica or opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

in 2 acts by 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...

Giuseppe Farinelli

Giuseppe Farinelli was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century who excelled in writing opera buffas...

. The work uses an Italian language 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...

by Antonio Simeone Sografi that is based on Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...

's 1636 play Le Cid
Le Cid
Le Cid is a tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille and published in 1636. It is based on the legend of El Cid.The play followed Corneille's first true tragedy, Médée, produced in 1635. An enormous popular success, Corneille's Le Cid was the subject of a heated polemic over the norms of dramatic...

. The work premiered at La Fenice

La Fenice

Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres...

in Venice on 17 February 1802 in a double bill with Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi

Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi

Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi was an Italian violinist and composer.A virtuoso violinist, an innovative composer, and a master teacher, Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi was called “The Orpheus of His Age” by his contemporaries...

's ballet Alessio di Wiarka.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 17 February 1802 (Conductor: )
Don Rodrigo (Cid)	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...	Vitale Damiani
Climene	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...	Zenaide Bulloni
Don Fernando	sopranista	Vincenzo Bartolini
Don Alonso	bass Bass (voice type) A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...	Giovanni Battista Zanardi
Elvira	soprano	Chiara Cicerelli
Count Gormas	tenor	Giuseppe Bertani
Don Diego	tenor	Gaetano Crivelli Gaetano Crivelli Gaetano Crivelli was a famous Italian tenor.Although he was born not actually in Bergamo but in neighbouring Brescia, Crivelli can be regarded as one of the founders of that remarkable Bergamo tenor school which, beginning with Giacomo David and proceeding through such singers as Giovanni David,...

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