Ernani 'Opera in four Acts' - Giuseppe Verdi 'Del Monaco, Sereni, Siepi, Previtali - 1958'

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Ernani 'Opera in four Acts' - Giuseppe Verdi 'Del Monaco, Sereni, Siepi, Previtali - Historical recording 1958 '

Composition Year: 1844
First Performance: 1844-03-09 in Venice, Teatro La Fenice Soli, Chorus, Orchestra, Gaetano Mares (conductor)

Performers:
Ernani - Mario Del Monaco
Don Carlo - Mario Sereni
de Silva - Casare Siepi
Elvira - Costantina Araujo
Giovanna - Renata - Mattioli
Don Riccardo - Athos Cesarini
Jago - Enrico Sianchi

Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Rome of the RAI
Conductor - Fernando Previtali

Recorded: Milan, 16/9/1958

Work:

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping first one and then another drama by Hugo into an acceptable libretto. As musicologist Roger Parker notes, the composer "intervened on several important points, insisting for example that the role of Ernani be sung by a tenor (rather than by a contralto as had originally been planned).

Ernani was first performed on 9 March 1844, and it was "immensely popular, and was revived countless times during its early years". It became Verdi's most popular opera until it was superseded by Il trovatore after 1853. In 1904, it became the first opera to be recorded completely.

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