La figlia di Iorio

"La figlia di Iorio" ("The Daughter of Iorio"), sometimes written as "La figlia di Jorio", is an opera in three acts by Alberto Franchetti to a libretto by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The libretto is a very close rendering of D'Annunzio's play of the same name. "La figlia di Iorio" premiered at La Scala on March 29, 1906, conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone. Although the play, which had premiered two years earlier, was considered one of D'Annunzio's greatest works, the opera did not achieve a comparable success and has been rarely performed since its day. [An opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti with the same title, and again set to D'Annunzio's play, premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1954.]

Roles

*Aligi (Tenor) - created by Giovanni Zenatello
*Candia della Leonessa (Mezzo-soprano) - created by Eleonora De Cisneros
*Crocifero (Bass) - created by Libero Ottoboni
*Favetta (Mezzo-soprano) - created by Maria Bastia Pagnoni
*Ienne dell'Eta (Bass) - created by Mansueto Gaudio
*Lazaro di Roio (Baritone) - created by Eugenio Giraldoni
*Mielitore (Bass) - created by Adam Didur
*Mila di Corda (Soprano) - created by Angelica Pandolfini
*Ornella (Soprano)- created by Adele D'Albert
*Splendore - (Soprano) - created by Teresina Ferraris

Recording

"Souvenirs from Verismo Operas - Volume 1", International Record Collectors' Club (IRCC 812) contains an aria and duet from "La figlia di Iorio" with two singers from the original cast:
*'Rinverdisca per noi' sung by Giovanni Zenatello
*'Che c'è egli, Aligi!' sung by Eugenio Giraldoni and Giovanni Zenatello

Notes and References

*Rosenthal, Harold and John Warrack. (1979, 2nd ed.). " [http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog7.shtml#ko The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera] ". London, New York and Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 168. ISBN 0-19-311318-X.
*Gelli, Piero (ed.), 'Figlia di Jorio, La', [http://www.delteatro.it/dizionario_dell_opera/f/figlia_di_jorio_la.php "Dizionario dell'Opera"] , 2005, Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai, ISBN 88-8490-780.
*"D'Annunzio, Gabriele", "Encyclopædia Britannica", 2007. Retrieved November 7, 2007, from [http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-152362/The-Daughter-of-Jorio "Encyclopædia Britannica Online"]

External links

*Gabriele D'Annunzio, "La figlia di Iorio", [http://www.readme.it/libri/Letteratura%20Italiana/La%20figlia%20di%20Iorio.shtml full text of the original play] (in Italian)