Anna Bolena
Al dolce guidami castel natio
- Composer
- D G M Donizetti
- Lyricist
- Felice Romani
- Type
- Opera
- Pages
- 3
- Arranger
- Ferdinand Sieber
- Instruments
- Voice, Piano
- Licence
- Public domain
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- Filesize
- 220 KB
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About Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both telling of the life of Anne Boleyn. It premiered on December 26, 1830 at the Teatro Carcano, Milan.
The duet "Sul suo capo aggravi un Dio" between Anna (soprano) and Jane Seymour (mezzo soprano) is considered one of the finest in the entire operatic repertoire.
Performance History
Anna Bolena was performed infrequently during the latter half of 19th century and early 20th century, but it was revived with more frequency in the post-war years. On December 30, 1947, the opera was performed at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, celebrating the centennial of this theatre, which opened in 1847 with Anna Bolena. The cast was Sara Scuderi as Anna Bolena, Giulietta Simionato as Jane Seymour and Cesare Siepi as Henry VIII.
In April 1957, the opera was revived at La Scala for Maria Callas in a lavish production directed by Luchino Visconti, and it proved to be one of her greatest triumphs. Similarly it was one of the last new roles performed by Dame Joan Sutherland. Other famous interpreters of the role were Leyla Gencer, Beverly Sills, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Edita Gruberova and Mariella Devia.
Anna Bolena is regularly performed now and there are several recordings of it.
Roles
Synopsis
Recordings
The above text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ). It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anna Bolena" ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bolena ).
The duet "Sul suo capo aggravi un Dio" between Anna (soprano) and Jane Seymour (mezzo soprano) is considered one of the finest in the entire operatic repertoire.
Performance History
Anna Bolena was performed infrequently during the latter half of 19th century and early 20th century, but it was revived with more frequency in the post-war years. On December 30, 1947, the opera was performed at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, celebrating the centennial of this theatre, which opened in 1847 with Anna Bolena. The cast was Sara Scuderi as Anna Bolena, Giulietta Simionato as Jane Seymour and Cesare Siepi as Henry VIII.
In April 1957, the opera was revived at La Scala for Maria Callas in a lavish production directed by Luchino Visconti, and it proved to be one of her greatest triumphs. Similarly it was one of the last new roles performed by Dame Joan Sutherland. Other famous interpreters of the role were Leyla Gencer, Beverly Sills, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Edita Gruberova and Mariella Devia.
Anna Bolena is regularly performed now and there are several recordings of it.
Roles
Synopsis
Recordings
- 1957 - Maria Callas (Anna), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna), Gianni Raimondi (Percy), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Enrico), Gabriella Carturan (Smeaton) - Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Gianandrea Gavazzeni - (EMI)
- 1958 - Leyla Gencer (Anna Bolena), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna Seymour), Plinio Clabassi (Enrico VIII) Aldo Bertocci (Lord Riccardo Percy), Silvio Majonica (Lord Rochefort), Anna-Maria Rota (Smeton), Mario Carlin (Sir Hervey), Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro della RAI di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni - (Melodram)
- 1965 - Leyla Gencer (Anna Bolena), Patricia Johnson (Giovanna Seymour), Carlo Cava (Enrico VIII), Juan Oncina (Lord Riccardo Percy), Maureen Morelle (Smeton), Don Garrard (Lord Rochefort), Lloyd Smith (Sir Hervey), Orchestra and Chorus of the Glyndebourne Festival, Gianandrea Gavazzeni - (Melodram)
- 1967 - Teresa Żylis-Gara (Anna Bolena), Karl Ridderbusch (Enrico), Vera Little (Giovanna), Gene Ferguson (Percy), Wolfgang Anheißer (Rochefort), Barbara Scherler (Smeton) and Werner Hollweg (Hervey) Orchester und Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Cologne, Alberto Erede - (Opera Depot (New York), OD 10388-2 (2 CDs))
- 1973 - Beverly Sills (Anna), Shirley Verrett (Giovanna), Stuart Burrows (Percy), Paul Plishka (Enrico), Patricia Kern (Smeaton) - John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Julius Rudel - (DG)
- 1994 - Edita Gruberova (Anna), Delores Ziegler (Giovanna), Jose Bros (Percy), Stefano Palatchi (Enrico), Helene Schneidermann (Smeaton) - Hungarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra, Elio Boncompagni - Nightingale Classics
The above text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ). It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anna Bolena" ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bolena ).
