La battaglia di Legnano

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Operas by Giuseppe Verdi
Oberto (1839) Un giorno di regno (1840) Nabucco (1842) I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843) Ernani (1844) I due Foscari (1844) Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849) Luisa Miller (1849) Stiffelio (1850) Rigoletto (1851) Il trovatore (1853) La traviata (1853) Les vêpres siciliennes (1855) Simon Boccanegra (1857) Aroldo (1857) Un ballo in maschera (1859) La forza del destino (1862) Don Carlos (1867) Aida (1871) Otello (1887) Falstaff (1893)
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La battaglia di Legnano (The Battle of Legnano) is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. It was based on the play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry. The opera received its first performance on January 27, 1849, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome. While the premiere was successful, the opera failed in its 1850 production in Genoa.^[1]

Contents 1 Roles 2 Noted arias 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 27, 1849[2] (Conductor: - )
Federico Barbarossa, German emperor	bass	Pietro Sottovia
First Consul of Milan	bass	Alessandro Lanzoni
Second Consul of Milan	bass	Achille Testi
Mayor of Como	bass	Filippo Giannini
Rolando, Milanese leader	baritone	Filippo Colini
Lida, his wife	soprano	Teresa De Giuli-Borsi
Arrigo, Veronese Warrior	tenor	Gaetano Fraschini
Marcovaldo, German prisoner	baritone	Lodovico Butia
Imelda, Lida's servant	mezzo-soprano	Vincenza Marchesi
Arrigo's squire	tenor	Mariano Conti
A herald	tenor	Gaetano Ferri
Knights of Death, Magistrates and leaders of Como, Milanese people and Senators, Warriors of Verona, Brescia, Novara, Piacenza and Milan, and the German Army

[edit] Noted arias

• "La pia materna mano" - Arrigo in Act I, Scene 1
• "Ah m'abbraccia d'esultanza" - Rolando in Act I, Scene 1
• "A frenarti o cor nel petto" - Lida in Act I, Scene 2
• "Quante volte come un dono" - Lida in Act I, Scene 2
• "Ah scellerate alme d'inferno" - Rolando in Act III, Scene 2
• "Se al nuovo dì pugnando" - Rolando in Act III, Scene 2
• "Ah se di Arrigo e Rolando" - Lida in Act IV

[edit] References

1. ^ Stamatov, Peter, "Interpretive Activism and the Political Uses of Verdi's Operas in the 1840s" (June 2002). American Sociological Review, 67 (3): pp. 345-366.
2. ^ List of singers taken from Budden, Julian: The Operas of Verdi (Cassell), vol 1, p. 388.

[edit] External links

• Libretto
• Aria database