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I masnadieri

• Opera in 4 acts, Italian
• Libretto Andrea Maffei
• Based on the tragedy Die Räuber by Friedrich von Schiller
• Time: between 1755 and 1757. Place: Germany.
  
  

Friedrich Schiller: Die Räuber. Painting.

*First Premieres in different countries

• * United Kingdom: 22 July 1847 at Her Majesty's Theatre, London
  • Italy: 12 April 1848, Rome (La Scala: 20 September 1853)
  • Spain: 3 June 1848, Barcelona
  • Portugal: 8 March 1849, Lisbon
  • Malta: 1849
  • Brazil: 1849, Rio de Janeiro
  • Cuba: 1849, Havana
  • Switzerland: 1850, Lugano
  • Belgium: 3 October 1850, Brussels
  • Turkey: 1851, Smyrna
  • Hungary: 1852, Budapest
  • Greece: 18 November 1852, Athens
  • Austria: 3 June 1854, Vienna
  • Mexico: 1856
  • United States: 2 June 1860, New York
  • France: 3 February 1870, Paris
• Characters:
  • Count Massimiliano Moor, bass
    • Luigi Lablache sang in the first premiere 22 July 1847
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
    • Boris Christoff
    • Ruggero Raimondi
  • Carlo Moor, elder son of Massimiliano, tenor
    • Italo Libero Severo Gardoni sang in the first premiere 22 July 1847
    • Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
    • Carlo Baucardé
    • Carlo Bergonzi
  • Francesco Moor, younger son of Massimiliano, baritone
    • Filippo Coletti sang in the first premiere 22 July 1847
    • Francesco Graziani
    • Antonio Cotogni ao. in Viterbo
    • Sesto Bruscantini
    • Piero Cappuccilli
    • Renato Bruson
  • Amalia, orphaned niece of Massimiliano, soprano
    • Jenny Lind sang in the first premiere 22 July 1847
    • Teresa Brambilla
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
    • Virginia Boccabadati
    • Dame Joan Alston Sutherland
    • Montserrat Caballé
  • Arminio, servant to the Count, tenor
    • Leone Corelli sang in the first premiere 22 July 1847
  • Moser, priest, bass
    • Lucien Bouche sang inthe World premiere
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
• Conductors:
  • Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi conducted in the first premiere 22 July 1847
  • Emanuele Muzio
  • Lamberto Gardelli
• Stage directors:
  • Giuseppe Cencetti (at the Teatro Apollo in Rome)
    
    

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