Adelia (opera)

Adelia, o La figlia dell'arciere (Adelia, or The Archer's Daughter) is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written partly by Felice Romani (Acts 1 and 2) and by Girolamo Maria Marini (Act 3), a part-time poet who had achieved notability the previous year with Otto Nicolai's Il templario. The opera premiered at the Teatro Apollo, Rome on 11 February 1841.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 11 February 1841 (Conductor: Emilio Angelini )
Carlo, Duke of Burgundy	baritone	Filippo Valentini
Oliviero, Count of Fienna	tenor	Lorenzo Salvi
Arnoldo, commander of the French archers in the service of the Duke	bass	Ignazio Marini
Adelia, his daughter	soprano	Giuseppina Strepponi
Comino, the Duke's chamberlain	tenor	Pietro Gasperini
Odetta, Adelia's friend	mezzo-soprano	Clementina Baroni
A squire of Oliviero	bass	Luigi Fossi

Synopsis

Time: "The past"^[1]

Place: Burgundy

Notable arias and numbers

Act 1

• Arnoldo: Siam giunti
• Adelia: Fui presaga; ah, tu lo vedi

Act 2

• Duet: Adelia and Arnoldo: Ah, no, non posso
• Duet: Adelia and Oliviero: Tutto di te sollecito

Act 3

• Oliviero: Che fia di me!
• Adelia: Ah! mi lasciate

Recordings

Year	Cast (Carlo, Oliviero, Arnoldo, Adelia)	Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra	Label[2]
1998	Stefano Antonucci, Octavio Arévalo, Boris Martinovic, Mariella Devia	John Neschling Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa Orchestra and Chorus (Recorded at performances in the Teatro Carlo Felice, January/ February)	Audio CD: BMG Ricordi(Agorá) Cat: RFCD 2029
2006	Giulio Mastronataro, David Sotgiu, Andrea Silvestrelli, Michela Sburlati	Gustav Kuhn Haydn Orchester von Bozen und Trient and the Haydn Choir (Recorded at concert performances in the Bolzano Auditorium, Bozen, 11–16 December)	Audio CD: RCA «Red Seal» Cat: 88697 10813 2

References

Notes

1. Osborne 1994, p. 279
2. Source of recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

Sources

• Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury: Element Books, Ltd (UK); Rockport, MA: Element, Inc.(USA)
• Ashbrook, William (1982), Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23526-X.
• Ashbrook, William (1998), "Donizetti, Gaetano" in Stanley Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. One. London: MacMillan Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-333-73432-7. ISBN 1-56159-228-5
• Ashbrook, William and Sarah Hibberd (2001), in Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4. pp. 224 – 247.
• Black, John (1982), Donizetti’s Operas in Naples, 1822—1848. London: The Donizetti Society.
• Casaglia, Gherardo, "11 Febbraio 1841", Almanacco Amadeus, 2005. Accessed 14 October 2009 (in Italian).
• Loewenberg, Alfred (1970). Annals of Opera, 1597-1940, 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield
• Osborne, Charles, (1994), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3
• Sadie, Stanley, (Ed.); John Tyrell (Exec. Ed.) (2004), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2 (hardcover). ISBN 0-19-517067-9 OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
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• Weinstock, Herbert (1963), Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Pantheon Books. LCCN 63-13703

External links

• Donizetti Society (London) website
• Libretto