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Il corsaro

• Tragic opera in 3 acts, Italian
• Libretto Francesco Maria Piave
• Based on the poem The corsair by Lord Byron
• Time: The early 1800’s. Place: A Greek island in the Aegean and the Turkish city of Corone.
• Premiere Teatro Grande, Trieste, 25 October 1848
  
  
  

The Parting Of Corrado and Medora, by Charles Wynne Nicholls.

• Characters:
  • Corrado, captain of the Pirates, tenor
    • Gaetano Fraschini sang in the first premiere 25 Oct 1848
    • Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
    • Lodovico Graziani
    • Carlo Bergonzi
    • José Carreras
  • Medora, Corrado's young lover, soprano
    • Carolina Rapazzini sang in the first premiere
    • Maria Callas
    • Montserrat Caballé
    • Ángeles Gulín
    • Jessye Norman
  • Pasha Seid, Pasha of Coron, baritone
    • HP Seydi Ali Pasha in Wikipedia
    • Achille De Bassini sang in the first premiere 25 Oct 1848
    • Renato Bruson
  • Gulnara, Seid's favorite slave, soprano
    • Marianna Barbieri-Nini sang in the first premiere 25 Oct 1848
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
    • Montserrat Caballé
    • Ángeles Gulín
• Conductors:
  • Luigi Ricci conducted in the first premiere 25 Oct 1848
  • According to some sources Giuseppe Alessandro Scaramelli conducted in the first pr., and not Ricci.
  • Renato Fasano
  • Lamberto Gardelli
    
    
    

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