Giannina e Bernardone

Domenico Cimarosa

Operas La finta parigina (1773) L'Armida immaginaria (1777) Le donne rivali (1780) Giannina e Bernardone (1781) L'impresario in angustie (1786) La Cleopatra (1789) Il matrimonio segreto (1792) Il maestro di cappella (1793) Le astuzie femminili (1794) Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (1796)

Giannina e Bernardone is a dramma giocoso in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by Filippo Livigni. The opera premiered in the autumn of 1781 at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice, Italy. A portion of the work was performed again in 1786 in Venice in the form of an intermezzo entitled Il villano geloso.^[1]

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, Autumn 1781 (Conductor: - )
Giannina	soprano
Masino	tenor
Bernardone	bass
Lauretta	soprano
il capitano Francone	tenor
Don Orlando	bass
Donna Aurora	mezzo-soprano
friends, servants, soldiers, the military band, neighbors

Recording

1953 - Sena Jurinac (Giannina), Sesto Bruscantini (Bernardone), Graziella Sciutti (Lauretta), Disma de Ceco (Donna Aurora), Mario Carlin (Capitano Francone), Mario Borriello (Don Orlando), Carlo de Antonio (Masino)
Coro e Orchestra della RAI di Milano, Nino Sanzogno (conductor) - Andromeda (2 CDs)

References

↑ LIBRETTI A STAMPA di Domenico Cimarosa

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