La battaglia di Legnano

"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. [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.]

Roles

ynopsis

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Act 1 - "He is Alive"

"Scene 1: Milan, not far frm the city walls"
* "La pia materna mano" - Arrigo in Act I, Scene 1
* "Ah m'abbraccia d'esultanza" - Rolando in Act I, Scene 1

"Scene 2: Besdie the ramparts of the city"
* "A frenarti o cor nel petto" - Lida in Act I, Scene 2
* "Quante volte come un dono" - Lida in Act I, Scene 2

Act 2 - "Barbarosa"

"The townhall of Como"

Act 3 - "Infamy"

"Scene 1: The basilica of Sant' Ambrogio"

"Scene 2: Rolando's castle"
* "Ah scellerate alme d'inferno" - Rolando in Act III, Scene 2
* "Se al nuovo dì pugnando" - Rolando in Act III, Scene 2

Act 4 - "To Die For the Fatherland"

"A square in Milan"
* "Ah se di Arrigo e Rolando" - Lida in Act IV

elected recordings

References

External links

* [http://www.giuseppeverdi.it/stampabile.asp?IDCategoria=162&IDSezione=581&ID=19847 Libretto]
* [http://www.aria-database.com/cgi-bin/aria-search.pl?opera=La+Battaglia+di+Legnano&a Aria database]