L'amore medico is an 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 two acts by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...

. Based on Moliere

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

's comedy L'Amour médecin

L'Amour médecin

L'Amour médecin is a French comedy written by Molière. It was presented for the first time by order of King Louis XIV at Versailles on September 22, 1665.-Sganarelle:...

, 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 Enrico Golisciani

Enrico Golisciani

Enrico Golisciani was an Italian author, born in Naples. He is best known for his opera librettos, but also published a slim volume of verses for music, entitled Pagine d'Album ; many more of his poems intended to be set to music were published in the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano.- Selected...

. It premiered on 4 December 1913 at the Hoftheater

Semperoper

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 in Dresden under the title Der Liebhaber als Arzt.

The opera's United States premiere took place on 25 March 1914 at the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

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 in New York City

New York City

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Roles

Role	Voice type	World premiere cast 4 December 1913 (Conductor: )	USA premiere cast 25 March 1914 (Conductor: Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory... )
Lucinda, Arnolfo's daughter	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...		Lucrezia Bori Lucrezia Bori Lucrezia Bori was a Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano.-Biography:Lucrezia Bori was born in Valencia, Spain. Her real name was Lucrecia Borja y González de Riancho and her family were reputed to be descended from the Borgias.Her voice had a unique timbre and transparent quality unlike any...
Clitandro, Lucinda's admirer	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...		Italo Cristalli
Lisetta, a servant	soprano		Bella Alten Bella Alten Bella Alten was an operatic soprano who performed at the Metropolitan Opera House during the early 1900s. Bella Alten was born in Zaxaczewo, Poland. She studied with Gustav Engel and Joachim at the Imperial Conservatory in Berlin, and later withAglaja Orgeni in Dresden...
Arnolfo	baritone Baritone Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...		Antonio Pini-Corsi Antonio Pini-Corsi Antonio Pini-Corsi was an Italian operatic baritone of international renown. He possessed a ripe-toned voice of great flexibility and displayed tremendous skill at patter singing...
Tomes, a doctor	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...		Léon Rothier Léon Rothier Léon Rothier was a French musician, predominantly an opera singer in the bass range, who reached the peak of his powers in the early 20th century at New York's Metropolitan Opera....
Desfonandres, a doctor	bass		Andrés De Segurola Andrés de Segurola Andrés Perelló de Segurola was a Spanish operatic bass who performed as Andrés de Segurola.-Biography:...
Macroton, a doctor	baritone		Robert Leonhardt
Bahis, a doctor	tenor		Angelo Badà Angelo Badà Angelo Badà was an Italian operatic tenor. He had a lengthy association with the Metropolitan Opera of New York City where he gave a total of 2,170 performance in 94 different operas in over 100 different roles from 1908 through 1938. Only two singers in the Met's history have made more...
Notary	bass		Paolo Ananian

Recordings

There is no commercially available recording of the whole opera, however the overture and intermezzo are both included in:

Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

• Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
  Gianandrea Noseda
  Gianandrea Noseda is an Italian conductor. He studied piano, composition and conducting in Milan. He furthered his conducting studies with Donato Renzetti, Myung-Whun Chung and Valery Gergiev....
  
  
• Recording date: 2009
• Label: Chandos, 10511 (CD)