Adelasia ed Aleramo
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| Title: | Adelasia ed Aleramo |
| Shape: | Opera in two acts |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Johann Simon Mayr |
| Libretto : | Luigi Romanelli |
| Premiere: | December 26, 1806 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro alla Scala , Milan |
| Place and time of the action: | Alba Pompeja and the surrounding area, around 990 |
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Adelasia ed Aleramo is an opera (original name: "melodramma serio") in two acts in Italian by the Bavarian composer Johann Simon Mayr . The libretto is by Luigi Romanelli . The premiere took place during the carnival season on December 26, 1806 at La Scala in Milan .
action
The action takes place in the city of Alba Pompeja and its surroundings.
Princess Adelasia, the daughter of Emperor Ottones, has fallen in love with Aleramo. Since Ottone is against the improper connection, the couple must flee. Far away, they start families, modest livelihoods, and adopt new identities. When Ottone camps in this area years later on a campaign against the Saracens, they see each other again. However, the hope of reuniting the family seems hopeless, despite the efforts of Adelasia and her mother, Empress Teofania. In the meantime, Rambaldo, Ottones confidante, has made a pact with the enemy, but accuses Aleramo of treason. His calculation is to get Aleramo out of the way first, then to ascend Ottones throne and finally to force Adelasia to marry. She had rejected him years ago and preferred Aleramo to him. The perfidious plan seems to work - until everything turns out differently at the last moment.
Performers of the world premiere
The interpreters of the world premiere were Giacomo David (Ottone), Angela Rotondi (Teofania), Teresa Belloc-Giorgi (Adelasia), Impératrice Sessi (Aleramo), Giovanni Battista Binaghi (Rambaldo), Gaetano Chizzola (Roberto) and Giuseppe Barbieri (Osmano).
In Bavaria, the opera was performed in 1808 in the Munich Court Theater on the occasion of the wedding of the Bavarian Princess Charlotte Auguste to Crown Prince Wilhelm I of Württemberg.
Adelasia ed Aleramo was also among others in 1807 in the Teatro Regio in Turin listed in 1810 in the Teatro San Carlo in Naples , in 1812 in the Teatro Comunale in Bologna , 1815 at the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London .
New productions
After the opera had not been performed for over 200 years, it was played again in 2013 in the Prinzregententheater in Munich in a production by Tilman Knabe under the musical direction of Andreas Spering .
Web links
- Libretto (Italian), Milan 1807. Digitized in the Internet Archive
- Adelasia ed Aleramo (Giovanni Simone Mayr) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Audio sample
- italian opera Adelasia ed Aleramo
- historical background
- action
- Press review
Individual evidence
- ↑ December 26, 1806: "adelasia". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..