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Ernani
- Opera in 4 acts, Italian
- Libretto Francesco Maria Piave
- Based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
- Performances also with the titles: Il proscritto, Elvira d'Aragona, Il corsaro di Venezia.
- Time: 1519. Place: Aragon, Aachen, and Zaragoza.
Scene from Ernani at His Majesty's Theatre 1845.
- First Premieres in different countries
- Italy: 9 March 1844 Teatro La Fenice, Venice
- Austria: 30 May 1844, Vienna (Wiener Hofoper: 18 May 1876)
- Portugal: 1 Jan 1845, Lisbon
- Spain: 4 Mar 1845, Madrid
- England: 8 Mar 1845, London (His Majesty's Theatre)
- Algeria: 31 May 1845, Algiers
- Netherlands: 1845, Amsterdam
- Belgium: 17 Dec 1845, Brussels
- Germany: 27 Dec 1845 at Königstädtiches Theater, Berlin (Berlin Staatsoper: 16 May 1859)
- France: 6 Jan 1846, Paris (Théâtre des Italiens)
- Turkey: 1846, Constantinople
- Denmark: 1846, Copenhagen
- Malta: 1846, Valletta
- Hungary: 6 Aug 1846, Budapest
- Switzerland: 10 Oct 1846, Lugano
- Russia: Oct 1846, St. Petersburg
- Cuba: 1847, Havana
- United States: 15 Apr 1847, New York (Metropolitan Opera: 28 Jan 1903)
- Chile: 1847, Santiago
- Sweden: 1848, Stockholm
- Argentina: 26 Jul 1849, Buenos Aires
- Norway: Aug 1849, Christiania
- Czech Republic: 15 Dec 1849, Prague
- Mexico: 15 May 1850, Mexico
- Ukraine: 1850, Lemberg
- Poland: 25 Jan 1851, Warsaw
- Ireland: 24 Feb 1851, Dublin
- California: Feb 1851, San Francisco
- Croatia: 19 Mar 1852, Zagreb
- Georgia: Feb 1854, Tiflis
- Venezuela: Oct 1854, Caracas
- Brazil: 11 Nov 1854, Rio de Janeiro
- Uruguay: 25 Aug 1856, Montevideo (Teatro Solis; 1st opera performed there)
- Australia: Apr 1857, Sydney
- Romania: 1857, Bucharest
- Finland: 19 Jul 1857, Helsinki
- Lithuania: 2 Feb 1860, Wilna
- Colombia: 1865, Bogotá
- Indonesia: 7 Dec 1866, Soerabaya
- Egypt: Dec 1869, Cairo
- Philippines: 8 Dec 1888, Manila
- Slovenia: 1893, Ljubljana
- South Africa: 1895, Cape Town
- Latvia: 30 Jan 1931, Riga
- Characters:
- Ernani, the bandit, tenor
- Carlo Guasco sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Napoleone Moriani
- Gennaro Ricci
- Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
- Lodovico Graziani
- Corrado Miraglia
- Lodovico Giraud
- Leopoldo Signoretti
- Francesco Innocenzo Tamagno
- Fernando De Lucia
- Francesco Signorini
- Angelo Angioletti
- Gino Martinez-Patti
- Ivan Vasiliyevitch Ershov
- Luigi Colazza
- Florencio Constantino
- Fiorello Giraud
- Leo Slezak
- Giovanni Martinelli
- Mario Del Monaco
- Franco Corelli
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Plácido Domingo
- Don Carlo, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, baritone
- HP Karl V of Spain H.R.E
- Antonio Superchi sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Felice Varesi
- Gaetano Ferri
- Giovanni Guicciardi
- Raffaele Ferlotti
- Marietta Alboni She was maybe the greatist contralto of all times. She was able to sing well this baritone role in London 1847.
- Francesco Graziani
- Antonio Cotogni ao. in Rome
- Sir Charles Santley
- Napoleone Verger
- Victor Maurel
- Emilio Barbieri
- Giuseppe Kaschmann
- Mattia Battistini
- Mario Ancona
- Giuseppe Pacini
- Francesco Maria Bonini
- Giuseppe De Luca
- Titta Ruffo
- Giuseppe Danise
- Amleto Barbieri
- Mario Carmelo Basiola
- Gino Bechi
- Giuseppe Taddei
- Ettore Bastianini
- Piero Cappuccilli
- Kari Nurmela
- Renato Bruson
- Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, bass
- HP Rui Gomes da Silva ?
- Antonio "Selva" Scremin sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Edward Reszke
- Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
- Luigi Manfrini
- Boris Christoff
- Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Ezio Domenico Flagello
- Ruggero Raimondi
- Elvira, his niece and fiancée, soprano
- Sophie Löwe sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Marietta Brambilla in Teatro San Carlo di Napoli 1847
- Eugenia Tadolini
- Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani
- Teresa Brambilla
- Giuseppina Clelia Maria Josepha Strepponi
- Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
- Rita Gabussi
- Catharine Simonsen
- Emilia Goggi
- Marianna Barbieri-Nini
- Marietta Gazzaniga
- Rosa de Vries-van Os
- Luigia Bendazzi made her opera debut as Elvira in1850 at Teatro San Benedetto di Venezia.
- Caroline Barbot
- Teresa Stolz
- Albina Contarini
- Marie Rôze
- Adalgisa Gabbi
- Isabella Paoli
- Gemma Bellincioni
- Ida Sambo
- Lina Pasini-Vitale
- Selma Kronold
- Elda Cavalieri
- Emilia Corsi
- Solomiya Amvrosiivna Krushelnytska
- Camilla Pasini
- Fernanda Chiesa
- Elvira Barbieri
- Cecilia Gagliardi
- Valentina Bartolomasi
- Giannina Arangi-Lombardi
- Mercedes Capsir
- Rosa Ponselle
- Gina Cigna
- Zinka Milanov
- Dame Joan Alston Sutherland
- Leontyne Price
- Montserrat Caballé
- Mirella Freni
- Aprile Millo
- Giovanna, her nurse, soprano
- Laura Saini sang in the first premiere
- Teresa Ruggeri at La Scala Milan 1844
- Marietta Alboni This famous contralto was able to sing from soprano to baritone!
- Don Riccardo, Don Carlo's equerry, tenor
- Giovanni Lanner sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Jago, Don Ruy's equerry, bass
- Andrea Bellini sang in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Antonio "Selva" Scremin
- Ernani, the bandit, tenor
- Conductors:
- Gaetano Mares conducted in the first premiere 9 March 1844
- Giovanni Tadolini
- Eugenio Cavallini
- Luigi Fabbrica
- Fernando Previtali
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Riccardo Muti
- James Lawrence Levine
- Stage directors
- Giuseppe Cencetti (at the Teatro Apollo in Rome)
- Giorgio De Lullo (La Scala 1969 with Votto)
- Luca Roncóni (Teatro alla Scala di Milano 7 Dec 1982; Live film 1982 with Freni, Domingo, Bruson; Muti)