Eduardo e Cristina

"Eduardo e Cristina" is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto originally written by Giovanni Schmidt for "Odoardo e Cristina" (1810), an opera by Stefano Pavesi, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.

This pastiche work was composed in a great hurry for a first performance arranged less than a month after the premiere of Ermione. Rossini borrowed some of the music from his other works, Adelaide di Borgogna, Ricciardo e Zoraide, as well as Ermione.

Performance history

"Eduardo e Cristina" was first performed at the Teatro Benedetto, Venice, on 24 April, 1819.

Roles

elected recordings

"'Rossini: "Eduardo e Cristina" - I Virtuosi di Praga
*Conductor: Francesco Corti
*Principal singers: Eliseda Dumitru (Edoardo), Carmen Acosta (Cristina) Omar Jara (Carlo)
*Recording date: July 1997 at Bad Wildbad
*Label: Bongiovanni - (CD)

ources

*Osborne, Richard: "Eduardo e Cristina" in "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera", Stanley Sadie (Ed.). (London: MacMillan, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
* [http://www.amadeusonline.net/almanacco.php?Start=0&Giorno=24&Mese=04&Anno=1819&Giornata=&Testo=&Parola=Stringa AmadeusOnLine.net almanac]

External links

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