Giulietta e Romeo (Zingarelli)

Opera dates
Title:	Giulietta e Romeo
	Title page of the libretto, Milan 1796
Shape:	Tragedia per musica in three acts
Original language:	Italian
Music:	Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Libretto :	Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Literary source:	Luigi da Porto , Jean-François Ducis , William Shakespeare
Premiere:	January 30, 1796
Place of premiere:	Teatro alla Scala , Milan
Playing time:	about 3 hours
Place and time of the action:	Verona
people
	Everardo Cappellio ( tenor ); Giulietta, daughter of Everardo ( mezzo-soprano / alto ); Romeo Montecchio ( soprano - castrato ); Gilberto, friend of both parties (soprano castrato); Matilde, confidante of Giulietta (soprano); Teobaldo, from the party of the Cappellio, Giulietta's bridegroom (tenor); Followers of the Cappellio and Montecchio families ( choir );

Giulietta e Romeo is an opera (original name: " tragedia per musica ") in three acts by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli with a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa based on the novel of the same name by Luigi da Porto (1530) and the tragedy Roméo et Juliette (1772) by Jean-François Ducis , a free adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1596). The first performance took place on January 30, 1796 in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan .

Instrumentation

The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:

Woodwind : two flutes , two oboes , two clarinets , two bassoons
Brass : two horns , two trumpets
Timpani
Strings
Basso continuo

Work history

Giulietta e Romeo was composed by Zingarelli in just eight days and is still considered by many researchers to be his best work. Opera remained an integral part of the Italian repertoire throughout the 19th century, and the role of Romeo was Maria Malibran's favorite until around 1830.

Adamo Bianchi (Everardo Cappellio), Giuseppina Grassini (Giulietta), Girolamo Crescentini (Romeo Montecchio), Angelo Monanni “Manzoletti” (Gilberto), Carolina Dinand (Matilde) and Gaetano De sang at the world premiere on January 30, 1796 in the Teatro alla Scala Paoli (Teobaldo). Luigi De Baillou was in charge.

A new production by the Heidelberg Theater in Schwetzingen premiered on November 25, 2016 . Felice Venanzoni was the musical director. The production was done by Nadja Loschky and Thomas Wilhelm, the stage by Daniela Kerck and the costumes by Violaine Thel. The soloists were Kangmin Justin Kim (Romeo), Emilie Renard (Giulietta), Terry Wey (Gilberto), Zachary Wilder (Everardo), Namwon Huh (Teobaldo) and Rinnat Moriah (Matilda).

Web links

Commons : Giulietta e Romeo (Zingarelli) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Giulietta e Romeo : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project

Libretto (Italian), Milan 1796. Digitized in the Internet Archive

Giulietta e Romeo (Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna

Libretto (Italian) on librettidopera.it

Libretti a stampa di Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Maria Caraci Vela: Accademia (i). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
↑ ^a ^b Sabine Henze-Döhring : Giulietta e Romeo. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 6: Works. Spontini - Zumsteeg. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-02421-1 , p. 812.
↑ As early as 1841, alongside La distruzione di Gerusalemme, it was considered one of the two best works: Antonio Meneghelli: Per le solenni esequie del cav. Nicolò Zingarelli celebrate nell'insigne Basilica del Santo il dì VI maggio del MDCCCXLI discorso del prof. from. Antonio Meneghelli . Padua 1841, p. 21 (Italian, archive.org [PDF]): “La Distruzione di Gerusalemme e il melodramma Giulietta e Romeo sono riconosciuti come i due capolavori del Zingarelli.”
^ Original libretto for the García family's American tour : Romeo and Giulietta; A Serious Opera. In three acts. As Performed at the New-York Theater , Murden, New York 1826 ( Google Books ); Libretto: Romeo e Giulietta. Mallet, London (quoted at ItalianOpera.org ). In both libretti Malibran is indicated as Romeo. See also: "I teatri". Giornale drammatico musicale e coreografico. Ferrario, Milano 1828, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 218 ( Google Books ).
^ Record of the performance on January 30, 1796 in the Teatro alla Scala in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
↑ January 30, 1796: "Giulietta e Romeo". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia .. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
^ Uwe Schweikert: Zingarelli in Schwetzingen / Theater Heidelberg. In: Opernwelt from January 2017, p. 4.

[grove-1] Maria Caraci Vela: Accademia (i). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[piper-2] Sabine Henze-Döhring : Giulietta e Romeo. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 6: Works. Spontini - Zumsteeg. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-02421-1 , p. 812.

[3] As early as 1841, alongside La distruzione di Gerusalemme, it was considered one of the two best works: Antonio Meneghelli: Per le solenni esequie del cav. Nicolò Zingarelli celebrate nell'insigne Basilica del Santo il dì VI maggio del MDCCCXLI discorso del prof. from. Antonio Meneghelli . Padua 1841, p. 21 (Italian, archive.org [PDF]): “La Distruzione di Gerusalemme e il melodramma Giulietta e Romeo sono riconosciuti come i due capolavori del Zingarelli.”

[4] Original libretto for the García family's American tour : Romeo and Giulietta; A Serious Opera. In three acts. As Performed at the New-York Theater , Murden, New York 1826 ( Google Books ); Libretto: Romeo e Giulietta. Mallet, London (quoted at ItalianOpera.org ). In both libretti Malibran is indicated as Romeo. See also: "I teatri". Giornale drammatico musicale e coreografico. Ferrario, Milano 1828, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 218 ( Google Books ).

[5] Record of the performance on January 30, 1796 in the Teatro alla Scala in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .

[6] January 30, 1796: "Giulietta e Romeo". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia .. Retrieved May 24, 2016.

[7] Uwe Schweikert: Zingarelli in Schwetzingen / Theater Heidelberg. In: Opernwelt from January 2017, p. 4.

Opera dates
Title:	Giulietta e Romeo
Title page of the libretto, Milan 1796
Shape:	Tragedia per musica in three acts
Original language:	Italian
Music:	Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
Libretto :	Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Literary source:	Luigi da Porto , Jean-François Ducis , William Shakespeare
Premiere:	January 30, 1796
Place of premiere:	Teatro alla Scala , Milan
Playing time:	about 3 hours
Place and time of the action:	Verona
people
Everardo Cappellio ( tenor ) Giulietta, daughter of Everardo ( mezzo-soprano / alto ) Romeo Montecchio ( soprano - castrato ) Gilberto, friend of both parties (soprano castrato) Matilde, confidante of Giulietta (soprano) Teobaldo, from the party of the Cappellio, Giulietta's bridegroom (tenor) Followers of the Cappellio and Montecchio families ( choir )