Il giuramento
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| Title: | The vow |
| Original title: | Il giuramento |
Title page of the libretto, Milan 1837 |
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| Shape: | Opera in three acts |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Saverio Mercadante |
| Libretto : | Gaetano Rossi |
| Literary source: | Victor Hugo : Angelo, Tyran de Padoue |
| Premiere: | March 11, 1837 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro alla Scala , Milan |
| Playing time: | about 2 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Syracuse , 14th century |
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Il giuramento ( Italian for The Oath ) is an opera (original name: "Melodramma") in three acts by Saverio Mercadante . The libretto written Gaetano Rossi based on the tragedy Angelo, tyran de Padoue by Victor Hugo . The work premiered on March 11, 1837 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The plot is similar to that of Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda , as it is based on the same drama by Victor Hugo.
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Elaisa loves Viscardo, but he is in love with Bianca. When Bianca's husband Manfroce suspects that his wife is unfaithful, he decides to kill her with poison. Elaisa saves Bianca by swapping the poison with a sleeping pill. When Viscardo finds Bianca sleeping in Elaisa's palace, he believes Elaisa murdered her rival and stabs Elaisa to death. Only when Bianca wakes up does Viscardo realize that Elaisa has sacrificed her happiness for his.
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : piccolo , two flutes , two oboes , English horn , two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : four horns , two trumpets , three trombones , serpent
- Timpani , percussion : bass drum , triangle , bell in c
- harp
- Strings
- Incidental music: two trumpets, two harps, harmonium , banda (not specified)
reception
The German premiere under the title The Oath took place in Berlin in 1839.
Il giuramento is not part of the standard repertoire of opera houses today, but is occasionally performed as a rarity, for example at the Wexford Festival Opera 2002.
Recordings
- 1951 with Rolando Panerai , Miriam Pirazzini, Maria Vitale, Amadeo Berdini - Fonit Cetra
- 1970 with Gianluigi Colmagro, Beverly Wolff, Patricia Wells, Michele Molese - Myto
- 1975 with Lajos Miller, Benedetta Pecchioli, Teresa Żylis-Gara , Michele Molese - Rodolphe
- 1979 with Robert Kerns, Agnes Baltsa , Mara Zampieri , Plácido Domingo - Orfeo
- 1984 with Luigi de Corato, Carmen Gonzales, Jolanta Omilian, Piero Visconti - Fonit Cetra
- 1993 with Marc Barrard, Martine Olmeda, Giovanna de Liso, Giuseppe Morino - Nouovo Era
literature
- Karsten Steiger: Operas - A directory of all recordings . Ullstein Verlag 2000
- Rein A. Zondergeld : Il giuramento. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , pp. 71-75.
- Reclam's opera dictionary . Reclam publishing house 2001
Web links
- Il giuramento : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (Italian), Milan 1837. Digitized in the Internet Archive
- Work information and libretto (Italian) as full text on librettidopera.it
- German-language libretto as full text at Operone
- Il giuramento (Saverio Mercadante) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Work data for Il giuramento based on the MGG with discography at Operone
- Discography on Il giuramento at Operadis
Individual evidence
- ^ Rein A. Zondergeld : Il giuramento. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , pp. 71-75.