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I Lombardi alla prima crociata

• Opera in 4 acts, Italian
• Libretto Temistocle Solera
• Based on the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi
• Time: 1096 - 1097, during the first crucade. Place: Milan, in and around Antioch, and near Jerusalem
• Premiere Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 11 February 1843
  
  
  

First Crusade 1096-1099. The Crusaders capture Jerusalem 15th July 1099.

• Characters:
  • Arvino, son of Lord Folco, tenor
    • HP Raymond IV, comte de Toulouse ?
    • Giovanni Severi sang in the first premiere
    • Gennaro Ricci
    • Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
    • Lodovico Graziani
    • Leone Corelli
    • Carlo Baucardé
    • Achille Corsi
    • Gino Martinez-Patti
    • Luigi Colazza
    • Beniamino Samuele Benedetto Gigli
    • Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
    • Carlo Bergonzi
    • Luciano Pavarotti
    • Plácido Domingo
    • José Carreras
  • Pagano/Hermit, son of Lord Folco, bass
    • HP Bohemond I of Antioch ?
    • Prosper Dérivis sang in the first premiere 11 Feb 1843
    • Gaetano Ferri
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
    • Antonio Cotogni ao. in Milan
    • Sir Charles Santley
    • Ormondo Maini
    • Luigi Manfrini
    • Ruggero Raimondi
  • Viclinda, wife of Arvino, soprano
    • Teresa Ruggeri sang in the first premiere 11 Feb 1843
  • Giselda, daughter of Arvino, soprano
    • Erminia Frezzolini (lirica) sang in the first premiere in 11 Feb 1843
    • Eugenia Tadolini
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
    • Catharine Simonsen
    • Teresa Stolz
    • Isabella Paoli
    • Fernanda Chiesa
    • Elvira Barbieri
    • Giannina Arangi-Lombardi
    • Gilda Dalla Rizza
    • Renata Scotto
    • Aprile Millo
  • Oronte, son of Acciano ruler of Antioch, tenor
    • Carlo Guasco sang in the first premiere 11 Feb 1843
    • Napoleone Moriani Faenza 1847
    • Leone Corelli
    • Lodovico Giraud
    • Giovanni Peirani
    • Carlo Bergonzi
    • José Carreras
  • Acciano, ruler of Antioch, tenor
    • HP Yaghi-Siyan, Emir of Antioch
  • Sofia, wife of Acciano, soprano
  • Prior of Milan, tenor
    • HP Arnulf III in Wiki
• Conductors:
  • Eugenio Cavallini conducted the first premiere 11 Feb 1843
  • Giovanni Tadolini
  • Luigi Fabbrica
  • Fernando Previtali
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Lamberto Gardelli
  • James Lawrence Levine
  • Riccardo Chailly, OMRI
• Stage directors:
  • Giuseppe Cencetti at the Teatro Apollo in Rome
    
    
    

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