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Stiffelio

• Opera in 3 acts, Italian
• Libretto Francesco Maria Piave
• Based on the play Le Pasteur ou L'Evangile et le foyer by Emile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois
• Opera was performed also with the title: Guglielmo Wellingrode.
• Time: Early 19th Century. Place: Count Stankar's castle by the River Salzbach, Germany.
• Premiere Teatro Grande, Trieste, 16 November 1850
  
  
  

Scene from act 2 of Stiffelio: the confrontation with Raffaele.


*Characters:

• *Stiffelio, a Protestant minister, tenor
  • *Gaetano Fraschini sang in the first premiere 16 Nov 1850
    • Lodovico Graziani
    • Emilio Clodovaldo Naudin
    • Mario Del Monaco
    • Plácido Domingo
    • José Carreras
  • Lina, his wife, soprano
    • Marietta Gazzaniga sang in the first premiere 16 Nov 1850
    • Virginia Zeani
    • Anna Moffo
    • Ángeles Gulín
  • Count Stankar, her father, an elderly colonel, baritone
    • Filippo Colini sang in the first premiere 16 Nov 1850
    • Antonio Cotogni ao. in London
    • Leo Nucci
  • Raffaele, Lina's lover, tenor
  • Jorg, an elderly minister, bass
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
  • Dorotea, Lina's cousin, mezzo-soprano
• Conductors:
  • Giuseppe Alessandro Scaramelli conducted in the first premiere. He also played the first violin. Verdi himself was on cembalo for three recitatives.
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Lamberto Gardelli
  • James Lawrence Levine
• Stage directors:
  • Giancarlo Del Monaco (New York Metropolitan)
    
    

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