Il Cid della Spagna

Il Cid della Spagna is a dramma per musica or opera in 2 acts by composer Giuseppe Farinelli. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Antonio Simeone Sografi that is based on Pierre Corneille's 1636 play Le Cid. The work premiered at La Fenice in Venice on 17 February 1802 in a double bill with Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi's ballet Alessio di Wiarka.[1]

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast, 17 February 1802[1]
(Conductor:)
Don Rodrigo (Cid) tenor Vitale Damiani
Climene soprano Zenaide Bulloni
Don Fernando sopranista Vincenzo Bartolini
Don Alonso bass Giovanni Battista Zanardi
Elvira soprano Chiara Cicerelli
Count Gormas tenor Giuseppe Bertani
Don Diego tenor Gaetano Crivelli

References

  1. 1 2 Casaglia, Gherardo (2005).[http://www.amadeusonline.net/almanacco?r=&alm_giorno=17&alm_mese=02&alm_anno=1802&alm_testo=Giuseppe_Farinelli "Giuseppe Farinelli, 17 February 1802"]. Almanacco Amadeus (Italian).
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