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Luisa Miller
- Tragic opera in 3 acts, Italian
- Libretto Salvadore Cammarano
- Based on the play "Kabale und Liebe" by Friedrich von Schiller
- Time: Early 17th Century. Place: The Tyrol.
The death of Luisa. Picture is from the first edition vocal score.
- First performances in different countries:
- Italy 8 December 1849 World Premiere Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
- Malta: 1850
- Spain: 27 April 1851, Madrid
- Portugal: 22 June 1851, Lisbon
- Austria: 20 April 1852, Vienna
- France: 7 December 1852, Paris
- Turkey: 1853, Constantinople
- Brazil: 1853, Rio De Janeiro
- Hungary: 1853, Bucharest
- Mexico: 28 January 1854, Buenos Aires
- United States: 20 July 1854, New York
- Russia: 1857, St. Petersburg
- Great Britain: 8 June 1858, London
- Australia: 1860, Melbourne
- Characters:
- Miller, a retired soldier, baritone
- Achille De Bassini sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
- Gaetano Ferri
- Raffaele Ferlotti
- Giovanni Corsi
- Antonio Cotogni
- Antonio Magini Coletti
- Mario Carmelo Basiola
- Giuseppe Taddei
- Sesto Bruscantini
- Piero Cappuccilli
- Renato Bruson
- Leo Nucci
- Luisa, his daughter, soprano
- Count Walter, bass
- Antonio "Selva" Scremin sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
- Rodolfo, his son, tenor
- Settimio Malvezzi sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
- Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
- Louis Guéymard
- Emilio Clodovaldo Naudin
- Carlo Negrini
- Leopoldo Signoretti
- Fernando De Lucia
- Ferruccio Giannini
- Fiorello Giraud
- Giuseppe Anselmi
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
- Sergei Lemeshev
- Richard Tucker
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Plácido Domingo
- José Carreras
- Federica, Duchess of Ostheim, Walter's niece, contralto
- Wurm, Walter's steward, bass
- Marco Arati sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
- Antonio "Selva" Scremin
- Ezio Domenico Flagello
- Miller, a retired soldier, baritone
- Conductors:
- Antonio Farelli conducted in the first premiere. He also played the first violin. Verdi himself was on cembalo for three recitatives.
- Fausto Cleva
- Fernando Previtali
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Lorin Varencove Maazel
- James Lawrence Levine
- Stage directors:
- Giuseppe Cencetti (at the Teatro Apollo in Rome)
- Giancarlo Del Monaco (Lausanne)