Torquato Tasso (opera)

Torquato Tasso (opera)

"Torquato Tasso" is a "melodramma semiseria", or 'semi-serious' opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti and based on the life of the great poet Torquato Tasso. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, who used a number of sources for his text, including works by Giovanni Rosini, Goethe, Goldoni, and Lord Byron as well as Tasso's actual poetry. It premiered on September 9, 1833 at the Teatro Valle, Rome.

The work has been criticized for "its odd deployment of vocal types" (William Ashbrook) characteristic of the semiseria genre.

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Selected recordings

* "Torquato Tasso". Luciana Serra, Simone Alaimo, Ernesto Palacio, Roberto Coviello, Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Genova, cond. Massimo De Bernart. "Bongiovanni". GB 2028/0-2
* "Torquato Tasso". Snarsky A., Du Plessis, Price, Brewer - Montgomery K. / Unknown Orchestra. "Raritas" 9

ources

*Ashbrook, William: "Torquato Tasso" in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

External links

* [http://www.karadar.com/Librettos/donizetti_tasso.html Libretto Italian]


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