I cavalieri di Ekebù
| I Cavalieri di Ekebù | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Riccardo Zandonai | |
_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON009535.jpg) Set design for act 1 in the premiere | |
| Librettist | Arturo Rossato |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings Saga |
| Premiere | 7 March 1925 La Scala Milan |
I cavalieri di Ekebù is an opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai to an Italian libretto by Arturo Rossato. The opera is based on Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf's 1891 debut novel Gösta Berlings Saga. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 7 March 1925. The opera was staged in Nuremberg in 1929, and the Vereingigten Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach presented a production by Tony Palmer in 1987.[1]
Roles
| Cast | Voice type | Premiere, 7 March 1925 Conductor: – Arturo Toscanini) |
|---|---|---|
| Giosta Berling | tenor | Franco Lo Giudice |
| The commander | mezzo-soprano | Elvira Mari-Casazza |
| Anna | soprano | Maria Luisa Fanelli |
| Anna's mother | mezzo-soprano | Lina Lanza |
| Sintram | bass | Fernando Autori |
| Cristiano | baritone | Benvenuto Franci |
| Fuchs | baritone | Pariso Votto |
| Everardo | baritone | Aristide Baracchi |
| Wemburgo | baritone | Chase Baromeo |
| Samzelius | bass | Carlo Walter |
| Berencreuz | bass | Amleto Galli |
| Kristoffer | bass | Giuseppe Menni |
| Liecrona | tenor | Alfredo Tedeschi |
| Rutger | tenor | Emilio Venturini |
| Kenvellere | tenor | Giovanni Genzardi |
| Røster | tenor | Palmiro Domenichetti |
| Julius | tenor | Giuseppe Nessi |
| Hostess | mezzo-soprano | Ida Mannarini |
| A girl | soprano | Anita Apolloni |
References
Sources
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "I cavalieri di Ekebù, 7 March 1925". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- www.italianopera.org