Der Vampyr, romantic opera in two acts in the version by Hans Pfitzner (1924).
Category: Featured Operas
DONIZETTI: Don Sebastiano
Don Sebastiano, Italian translation of Dom SÈbastien, roi de Portugal, a grand opera in five acts.
MEYERBEER: Les Huguenots
Les Huguenots, an opera in five acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by EugÈne Scribe and Emile Deschamps.
VERDI: Don Carlo — Berlin 1948
Don Carlo, an opera in five acts. Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Libretto by Joseph MÈry and Camille Du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller’s dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien. French text revised by Du Locle, Italian translation by Achille de LauziËres and Angelo Zanardini.
DONIZETTI: Rita
Rita ou Le mari battu, a comic opera in one act.
Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Gustave VaÎz.
Pratolino, Venice, Mantua: Musings on Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio
Tito Manlio, Vivaldi’s second opera in Mantua for the 1718/19 season, is fraught with political and familial tensions.1
VERDI: I vespri siciliani
I vespri siciliani, grand opera in five acts. Italian edition of Les vÈpres siciliennes.
Pairing and Elaboration
The character configuration in Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio is unusual because of its musical pairing of the prima donna Servilia with the seconda donna Vitellia not just once, but twice in the second act of the opera.