The improviser (opera)

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Work data
Title: The improviser
Shape: Opera
Original language: German
Music: Eugen d'Albert
Libretto : Gustav Kastropp
Premiere: February 26, 1902
Place of premiere: Royal Opera Berlin
Playing time: 155 min.
Place and time of the action: Padua, 1540
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The improviser is an opera in three acts by the composer Eugen d'Albert based on a libretto by Gustav Kastropp. The first performance took place on February 26, 1902 at the Royal Opera in Berlin.

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Padua groans under the yoke of the Venetian domination. The pressure on the Doge Angelo Malepieri appointed by Venice is growing. Malepieri suspects that he - the tyrant of Padua and slave of Venice - threatens to become a victim of his own system, which is based on spying and denunciation. When riots broke out during the carnival festivities, he had the popular singer Cassio Belloni, famous for his improvisational skills, arrested, in whom he suspected the ringleader of a conspiracy. Cassio, however, is the son of the rightful Doge of Padua, who has returned from exile. He had secretly prepared to retake the city. In the dungeon he learns from two fellow inmates, who turn out to be Venetian informers, that the Council of Ten in Venice had already sentenced Malepieri to death. Cassio is set free through Silvia's petition for mercy, the doge's daughter. When the uprising against the Venetian occupiers broke out shortly afterwards, he succeeded in protecting Malepieri and Silvia from the captors of Venice and from the people of Padua who were crying for revenge. He allows mercy to rule and, as the new Doge of Padua, cheered by the people, takes Silvia as his wife.

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