Torvaldo e Dorliska

"Torvaldo e Dorliska" ("Torvaldo and Dorliska") is an operatic dramma semiserio in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on "Les amours du chevalier de Faubles" by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).

Torvaldo and Dorliska is a rescue opera with an eventual happy ending. The inclusion of buffo roles is the reason for its designation as a 'semiserio' work, similar to Rossini's La gazza ladra.

Performance history

"Torvaldo and Dorliska" was first performed at the Teatro Valle, Rome, on 26 December, 1815. it remained in the repertory in Italy for many years though it was never a great critical success.

Roles

elected recordings

"'Rossini: "Torvaldo e Dorliska" - Czech Chamber Soloists
*Conductor: Alessandro de Marchi
*Principal singers: Mauto Utzeri, Michele Bianchini, Anna Rita Gemmabella, Paola Cigna, Huw Rhys-Evans
*Recording date: 10, 12, 17 July 2003 (Rossini in Wildbad Festival)
*Label: Naxos - 8.660189-90 (CD)

ources

*Osborne, Richard: "Torvaldo e Dorliska" in "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera", Stanley Sadie (Ed.). (London: MacMillan, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

References

External links

* [http://www.karadar.com/Librettos/rossini_torvaldo.html Italian libretto at Karadar.com]