Temistocle Solera
Temistocle Solera (born December 25, 1815 in Ferrara , † April 21, 1878 in Milan ) was an Italian poet and librettist . He wrote several libretti for Giuseppe Verdi ; best known was Nabucco .
Life
After literary and musical studies, Temistocle Solera emerged as a poet and novelist at an early age. Between 1840 and 1845 he wrote four operas on his own libretti, but did not have the success he had hoped for. At the same time he began to write libretti for other composers. Those set to music by Giuseppe Verdi are still played today , and the best known of these is Nabucco (1842).
In 1845 Solera moved to Spain, where he worked as a poet and librettist in various cities. A repeated collaboration connected him with the later director of the Conservatory of Madrid, Emilio Arrieta : while in Italy he had made the libretto of his own opera Ildegonda available to him. With the composition of this text, his first opera, Arrieta had great success and won the composition prize of La Scala in Milan . In Spain Solera wrote the libretto La conquista di Granata ( The Conquest of Granada ) for him .
In his last years returned Solera to Italy, where he, of the Neoguelfismus was close to, politically-operated in the background, including as ambassador between Napoléon III. and Cavour acted.
Works
Operas
- Ildegonda (March 20, 1840, Milan , Teatro alla Scala )
- Il contadino d'Agliate (October 4, 1841, Milan, Teatro alla Scala) (second version: La fanciulla di Castelguelfo - October 23, 1842, Modena )
- Genio e sventura (June 1843, Padua , Teatro Nuovo)
- La hermana de palayo (1845, Madrid , Teatro Real )
Libretti
- Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio ( Giuseppe Verdi , 1839)
- Gildippe ed Odoardo ( Otto Nicolai , 1840)
- Galeotto Manfredi (Hermann, 1842)
- Nabucco (Giuseppe Verdi, 1842)
- I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Giuseppe Verdi, 1843)
- Giovanna d'Arco (Giuseppe Verdi, 1845)
- Attila (Giuseppe Verdi, 1846)
- Ildegonda ( Emilio Arrieta , 1856)
- La conquista di Granata (Emilio Arrieta, 1850)
- La fanciulla delle Asturie ( Benedetto Secchi , 1856)
- Sordello (Antonio Buzzi, 1856)
- Pergolesi (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, 1857)
- Vasconcello (Angelo Villanis, 1858)
- Una notte di festa (Angelo Villanis, 1859)
- L'espiazione (Achille Peri, 1861)
- Zilia (Gaspar Villate, 1877)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Possibly also La conquista de Granada - whether this opera was performed in Italian or Spanish is not clear from the sources available.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solera, Temistocle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ferrara |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1878 |
| Place of death | Milan |