- Olivo e Pasquale
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Olivo e Pasquale (Olivo and Pasquale) is a melodramma giocoso, a romantic comedy opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Jacopo Ferretti wrote the Italian libretto after Simeone Antonio Sografi's play.
Contents
Performance history
It premiered on January 7, 1827 at the Teatro Valle, Rome.
Roles
Role Voice type Premiere Cast, 7 January 1827
(Conductor: - )Olivo baritone Domenico Cosselli Pasquale bass Giuseppe Frezzolini Isabella, daughter of Olivo soprano Emilia Bonini Camillo contralto Anna Scudellari Cosselli Matilde, Isabella's maid mezzo-soprano Agnese Loyselet Monsieur le Bross, merchant of Cadice tenor Giovanni Battista Verger Columella, a poor traveller buffo Luigi Garofalo Diego, servant in the house of two siblings baritone Stanislao Prò Waiters, servants, young people Synopsis
- Time: The eighteenth century
- Place: Lisbon
Olivo and Pasquale are two brothers, both merchants from Lisbon: the first is hot-blooded and brutal, the other is sweet and shy. Olivo's daughter, Isabella, loves a young apprentice, Camillo, but her father wants her to marry a wealthy merchant fro Cadiz, Le Bross. Isabella tells Le Bross that she loves another. At first he is led to believe that it is Columella, an old conceited and ridiculous man but shortly after he understand the it is Camillo. Olivo, realizuing that his daughter dares to oppose his will, is furious and Le Bross, shocked by his disproportionate reaction, becomes Isabella and Camillo's ally and promises to help them get married. The lovers threaten to commit suicide at five o'clock if Olivo doesn't agree to let them get married, but he does not believe them and refuses to be blackmailed. At five, however, shots of a firearm echo: Pasquale faints and Olivo says that now he would have preferred Isabella to be Camillo's wife rather than dead. Fortunately, the threat of suicide was not true and the two appear at the door, Olivo embraces and blesses their union.
Recordings
Year Cast
(Olivo, Pasquale, Isabella, Camillo)Conductor,
Opera House and OrchestraLabel[1] 1980 John Del Carlo,
Gastone Sarti,
Estelle Maria Gibbs,
Sabrina BizzoBruno Rigacci,
Orchestra Giovanile International di Opera Barga
(Recording of a performance in the Teatro Dei Differenti, Barga, 27 July)Audio CD: Bongiovanni
Cat: GB 2005/6-2References
- Notes
- ^ Source for recording information: Recording(s) of Olivo e Pasquale on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- 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
- 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
External links
- Libretto (Italian)
Categories:- Italian-language operas
- Operas by Gaetano Donizetti
- Operas
- 1827 operas
- Operas set in Iberia
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