List of operas by Wolf-Ferrari
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This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
(1876–1948).
Composer
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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...
(1876–1948).
List
| Title | |Genre | |Subdivisions | |Libretto | |Première date | |Place, theatre |
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| Irene | composer | composed 1895–6, but unperformed | |||
| La Camargo | M Pezze-Pascollato, after Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris... |
composed 1897, but unpublished | |||
| Cenerentola | fiaba musicale | 3 acts | M Pezze-Pascollato, after Charles Perrault Charles Perrault Charles Perrault was a French author who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known include Le Petit Chaperon rouge , Cendrillon , Le Chat Botté and La Barbe bleue... |
22 February 1900 | Venice, 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... |
| Le donne curiose Le donne curiose Le donne curiose is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana after Carlo Goldoni's play.-Performance history:... (Die neugierigen Frauen) |
3 acts | Luigi Sugana, after Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty... |
27 November 1903 | Munich, Residenz Cuvilliés Theatre The Cuvilliés Theatre or Old Residence Theatre is the former court theatre of the Residenz in Munich, southern Germany.- Description :... |
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| I quatro rusteghi (Die vier Grobiane) |
3 acts | Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato, after Carlo Goldoni | 19 March 1906 | Munich, Hoftheater | |
| Il segreto di Susanna Il segreto di Susanna Il segreto di Susanna is an intermezzo in one act by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Enrico Golisciani... (Susannens Geheimnis) |
intermezzo Intermezzo In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work... |
1 act | 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... |
4 December 1909 | Munich, Hoftheater |
| I gioielli della Madonna I gioielli della Madonna I gioielli della Madonna is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Carlo Zangarini and Enrico Golisciani, based on news accounts of a real event.... |
3 acts | Enrico Golisciani and Carlo Zangarini | 23 December 1911 | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Kurfürstenoper |
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| L'amore medico L'amore medico L'amore medico is an opera in two acts by composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Based on Moliere's comedy L'Amour médecin, the work uses an Italian language libretto by Enrico Golisciani... (Der Liebhaber als Arzt) |
2 acts | Enrico Golisciani, after Molière 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 L'amour médicin |
4 December 1913 | Dresden, Hoftheater Semperoper The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden . It is located near the Elbe River in the historic center of Dresden, Germany.The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841... |
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| Gli amanti sposi | opera giocosa | 3 acts | Luigi Sugana, Giuseppe Pizzolato, Enrico Golisciani and Giovacchino Forzano Giovacchino Forzano Giovacchino Forzano was an Italian playwright, librettist, stage director, and film director. A resourceful writer, he produced opera librettos for most of the major Italian composers of the early twentieth century, including the librettos for Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica and Gianni... , after Carlo Goldoni's Il ventaglio (1765) |
19 February 1925 | Venice, La Fenice |
| Das Himmelskleid (La veste di cielo) |
Legende | 3 acts | composer, after Claude Perrault | 21 April 1927 | Munich, National |
| Sly Sly (opera) Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on the Prologue to William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato (English: Sly, or The Legend... |
3 acts | Giovacchino Forzano, after Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... 's The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself... |
29 December 1927 | Milan, 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... |
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| La vedova scaltra La vedova scaltra La vedova scaltra is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Mario Ghisalberti, after Carlo Goldoni's original play first given in 1748.-Performance history:... |
3 acts | Mario Ghisalberti, after Carlo Goldoni | 5 March 1931 | Rome, Teatro Reale dell'Opera Teatro dell'Opera di Roma The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre, it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements... |
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| Il campiello Il campiello Il campiello is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. The Italian-language libretto was by Mario Ghisalberti, after the famous comedy of the same name written for the 1756 Venetian Carnival by the great Venetian playwright, Carlo Goldoni.Referred to as a commedia lirica, it is an... |
commedia lirica | 3 acts | Mario Ghisalberti, after Carlo Goldoni | 12 February 1936 | Milan, La Scala |
| La dama boba | commedia lirica | 3 acts | Mario Ghisalberti, after Lope de Vega Lope de Vega Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature... |
1 February 1939 | Milan, La Scala |
| Gli dei a Tebe (Der Kuckuck in Theben) |
3 acts | L Anderson (L Strecker) and Mario Ghisalberti | 4 June 1943 | Hanover, Staatsoper Staatsoper Hannover Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house and opera company in Hanover. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the standard operatic repertoire as well as 20th century... |