Silvano

Pietro Mascagni
Operas Cavalleria rusticana (1890) L'amico Fritz (1891) I Rantzau (1892) Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895) Silvano (1895) Zanetto (1896) Iris (1898) Le maschere (1901) Amica (1905) Isabeau (1911) Parisina (1913) Lodoletta (1917) Pinotta (1932) Il piccolo Marat (1921) Nerone (1935)

Silvano is a dramma marinaresco (literally a "seafaring drama") or opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, 1895, from a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on a novel by Alphonse Karr.

It received its first performance on March 25, 1895 at La Scala, Milan.

The barcarolle from Silvano features prominently in a montage during the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull.

Roles

Cast	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 25 March 1895 (Conductor: Rodolfo Ferrari)
Matilde	soprano	Adelina Stehle
Silvano	tenor	Fernando De Lucia
Renzo	baritone	Giuseppe Pacini
Rosa	contralto	Leonilde Ponzano

References

Notes

Sources

• Mallach, Alan. Pietro Mascagni and His Operas , University Press of New England, 2002. ISBN 1555535240