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Il campanello or Il campanello di notte (The Night Bell) is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Mathieu-Barthélemy Troin Brunswick and Victor Lhérie's French vaudeville La sonnette de nuit. The premiere was on June 1, 1836.
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[edit] Performance history
The opera was presented in Italian at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 6 June 1836 and in English on 9 March 1841. It was also given in in English in 1870. It was first performed in Italian in the US in Philadelphia on 25 October 1861; this production went on to New York three days later. An English translation was seen in that city on 7 May 1917.[1]
Today, it is very rarely presented.
[edit] Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 1 June 1836 (Conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|
| Serafina, a young bride | soprano | Amalia Schütz |
| Don Annibale di Pistacchio, an apothecary, her husband | bass | Raffaele Casaccia |
| Spiridione, Don Annibale's servant | tenor | |
| Madama Rosa, Serafina's aunt | mezzo-soprano | |
| Enrico, Serafina's cousin | baritone | Giorgio Ronconi |
[edit] Synopsis
- Time: Early 19th century
- Place: Naples[2]
Don Annibale Pistacchio, an old apothecary, has just married the young Serafina. Enrico, Serafina's former lover, constantly interrupts the wedding night by showing up in several disguises and calling at Pistacchio's drugstore by ringing the night bell, asking the unfortunate groom to fill a preposterous list of prescriptions.
[edit] Recordings
- 1946: Simonetto/Scarangella/Truccato Pace/Mercuriali/Capecchi/Bruscantini, live in Turin (Cetra)
- 1963: Gracis/Bruno de Sanctis/Rafanelli/Guggia/Rinaldi/Mariotti. (Deutsche Grammophon)
- 1979: Amaducci/Devia/Casoni/Gaifa/Nucci/Taddei, live in Bregenz (HRE)
- 1983: Bertini/Baltsa/Casoni/Gaifa/Romero/Dara, (CBS)
- 1995: Carminati/Taliento/de Mola/Casalin/Nucci/Dara, live in Turin (Ricordi)
- 1996: Larkin/Bender/Kokolus/Powell/Sims/Hepler, 1996, live in New York (Newport)
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ Weinstock, UK and US productions, p. 351
- ^ Osborne, p. 248
- ^ Recordings of Il campanello on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- Cited sources
- Osborne, Charles, The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994 ISBN 0931340713
- Weinstock, Herbert, Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. ISBN 63-13703
- Other sources
- Ashbrook, William, Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 052123526X ISBN 0-521-23526-X
- Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-140-29312-4
[edit] External links
- Libretto (Italian)
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