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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
  • Luisa, his daughter, soprano
    • Marietta Gazzaniga sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
    • Teresa Brambilla
    • Marianna Barbieri-Nini
    • Rosina Penco
    • Angiolina Bosio
    • Marietta Piccolomini
    • Albina Contarini
    • Marie Rôze
    • Gilda Dalla Rizza
    • Maria Caniglia
    • Anna Moffo
    • Montserrat Caballé
    • Renata Scotto
    • Aprile Millo
    • Ángeles Gulín
  • 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
    • Marietta Alboni
    • Constance Nantier-Didiée
    • Shirley Verrett
  • Wurm, Walter's steward, bass
    • Marco Arati sang in the first premiere 8 Dec 1849
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
    • Ezio Domenico Flagello
• 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)
    
    
    

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