''Adelia, o La figlia dell'arciere'' (''Adelia, or The Archer's Daughter'') is an
opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...
in three acts by
Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian
libretto was written partly by
Felice Romani
Giuseppe Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist betw ...
(acts 1 and 2) and by (act 3), a part-time poet who had achieved notability the previous year with
Otto Nicolai's ''
Il templario
''Il templario'' is an Italian-language opera by the German composer Otto Nicolai from a libretto written by based on Walter Scott's 1819 novel ''Ivanhoe''.
It has been noted that Nicolai's work for the opera stage, which followed the successfu ...
''. The opera premiered at the
Teatro Apollo, Rome on 11 February 1841.
Roles
Synopsis
:Time: "The past"
:Place: Burgundy
The story features the protagonist, Adelia, the daughter of Arnoldo, one of
Duke Carlo's bodyguards. The Duke returns from a successful battle to find a fellow nobleman, Count Oliviero, leaving Arnoldo's house which is on Carlo's estate. The chorus then sing rumors that Oliviero has slept with Adelia, taking her virginity. The Duke sentences Oliviero to death for this perceived transgression, but the other characters prevent this. By the end of the opera, all agree to the marriage.
Notable arias and numbers
Act 1
*Arnoldo: "Siam giunti"
*Adelia: "Fui presaga; ah, tu lo vedi"
Act 2
*Duet: Adelia and Arnoldo: "Ah, no, non posso"
*Duet: Adelia and Oliviero: "Tutto di te sollecito"
Act 3
*Oliviero: "Che fia di me!"
*Adelia: "Ah! mi lasciate"
Recordings
References
Further reading
* Allitt, John Stewart (1991), ''Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr'', Shaftesbury: Element Books (UK); Rockport, Massachusetts: Element (USA)
*
Ashbrook, William (1982), ''Donizetti and His Operas'', Cambridge University Press. .
* Ashbrook, William (1998), "Donizetti, Gaetano" in
Stanley Sadie (ed.), ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volu ...
'', vol. 1. London: Macmillan. .
* Ashbrook, William and Sarah Hibberd (2001), in
Holden, Amanda (ed.), ''The New Penguin Opera Guide'', New York: Penguin Putnam. . pp. 224–247.
* Black, John (1982), ''Donizetti’s Operas in Naples, 1822–1848''. London: The Donizetti Society.
* Loewenberg, Alfred (1970). ''Annals of Opera, 1597–1940'', 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield
*
Sadie, Stanley
Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was publ ...
, (ed.);
John Tyrell (exec. ed.) (2004), ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...
''. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook).
*
Weinstock, Herbert (1963), ''Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century'', New York: Pantheon Books.
External links
*
Libretto opera.stanford.edu
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