Ugo, conte di Parigi

Work data
Title:	Ugo, conte di Parigi
Title page of the libretto, Milan 1832
Shape:	Tragedia lirica in two acts
Original language:	Italian
Music:	Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto :	Felice Romani
Premiere:	March 13, 1832
Place of premiere:	Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Playing time:	approx. 1 ½ hours
Place and time of the action:	France and Aquitaine, 10th century
people
Luigi V, King of France ( old ) Emma, widow Lotarios, his mother ( mezzo-soprano ) Bianca, Princess of Aquitaine, engaged to the King ( soprano ) Adelia, her sister, (soprano) Ugo, Count of Paris ( tenor ) Folco di Angiò, born prince ( baritone )

Ugo, conte di Parigi is an opera (original name: "Tragedia lirica") in two acts and four parts by Gaetano Donizetti with a libretto by Felice Romani after Blanche d'Aquitaine by Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis . The premiere took place on March 13, 1832 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

action

Set design for Ugo, conte di Parigi by Alessandro Sanquirico (1832)

first act

Queen Emma poisoned her husband, King Lotario. To the annoyance of Folco, who instigated them to do so, no one from his family is appointed as his successor, but the young Prince Luigi, whose guardian Count Ugo has been appointed. Ugo travels to Aquitaine to woo Luigi for Princess Bianca. During this visit he falls in love with her sister Adelia. Bianca herself falls in love with Ugo. Even before the altar, she refuses to marry Luigi and confesses her feelings for Ugo. Luigi feels betrayed by Ugo and has him thrown into dungeon.

Second act

Ugo rejects Bianca. He is freed from prison by soldiers who are ready to face Luigi under his leadership. Ugo, on the other hand, wants to be loyal and goes with Adelia to Luigi to introduce her as his bride. Luigi arranges the wedding of Ugo and Adelia. Folco persuades Bianca to pour poison into Ugo's mug. When the old Queen Emma finds out about it and calls for help, Bianca herself drinks the deadly poison.

Work history

Clorinda Corradi (Luigi V), Felicita Baillou-Hillaret (Emma), Giuditta Pasta (Bianca), Giulia Grisi (Adelia), Domenico Donzelli (Ugo) and Vincenzo Negrini sang at the premiere on March 13, 1832 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Folco di Angiò).

• Singer of the world premiere in 1832
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  Clorinda Corradi (Luigi V)

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  Giuditta Pasta (Bianca)

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  Giulia Grisi (Adelia)

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  Domenico Donzelli (Ugo)

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  Vincenzo Negrini (Folco di Angiò)

There were further performances in Pisa in spring 1835, in Trieste in autumn 1835, in Ferrara for the carnival season in 1840 and in Sassari in 1847.

Soon after its premiere, the work was forgotten. It was only revived in the 1970s by Opera Rara , who also made the first complete recording of the opera in 1977.

Recordings

• Maurice Arthur, Della Jones , Janet Price, Yvonne Kenny , New Philharmonia Orchestra, Alun Francis (Opera Rara)
• Yasuharu Nakajima, Sim Tokyurek, Doina Dimitriu, Carmen Giannattasio , Orchestra Accademia d'Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Fogliani (Dynamic)

swell

• Heinz Wagner: The great manual of the opera. Florian Noetzel Verlag 1987
• Booklet of the recording of Opera Rara, 1977

Web links

Commons : Ugo, conte di Parigi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ugo, Conte di Parigi : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Libretto (Italian), Milan 1831. Digitized in the Internet Archive
• Ugo, conte di Parigi (Gaetano Donizetti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
• Discography on Ugo, conte di Parigi at Operadis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Record of the performance on March 13, 1832 in the Teatro alla Scala in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .