Michele Carafa
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Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano[1] (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri.
Selected operas
Stanford University's list of Carafa's operas shows that he wrote 29, which were performed between 1816 and 1847.[2]
- Gabriella di Vergy (1816)
- Berenice in Siria (1818)
- Elisabetta in Derbyshire ossia Il castello di Fotheringhay (Elizabeth [1st] in Derbyshire, or Fotheringay Castle), (December 1818). Based on Friedrich Schiller's play (1802)[3]
- I due Figaro (1820)
- Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans (1821)
- Le solitaire (1822)
- Le valet de chambre (1823)
- Il sonnambulo (1824)
- La belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) (1825)
- Masaniello (1828)
- Le nozze di Lammermoor (1829)
- La prison d'Édimbourg (1833)
References
Notes
Sources
- Complete list of operas by Carafa on opera.stanford.edu
- Warrack, John and Ewan West, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, OUP, 1992 ISBN 0-19-869164-5
- Weatherson, Alexander, "Queen of dissent: Mary Stuart and the opera in her honour by Carlo Coccia", Donizetti Society (London), 2001
External links
- Free scores by Michele Carafa at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Template:Operabase
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- 1787 births
- 1872 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century Italian composers
- Academics of the Conservatoire de Paris
- Italian classical composers
- Italian male classical composers
- Italian opera composers
- Male opera composers
- Italian Romantic composers
- Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
- Musicians from Naples
- 19th-century male musicians
- Italian composer stubs