Napoleon's Viceroy in Milan, Eugène de Beauharnais, was so impressed by the opera that he wrote to the Minister of the Interior, "You will kindly arrange for Maestro Joachin Rossini to be exempted from military service. I cannot take it upon myself to expose to the enemy's fire such a precious existence; my contemporaries would never forgive me. We are perhaps losing a mediocre soldier, but we are surely saving a man of genius for the nation."
Librettist | Luigi Romanelli |
Date of composition | 1812 |
Premiered | 1812, September 26th (La Scala) in Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy |
First published | 1846, Ricordi in Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy |
Type | Opera |
Spoken language | Italian |
Instruments |
Orchestra
Voice (Bass) - Count Asdrubale Voice (Contralto) - Clarice Voice (Tenor) - Giocondo Voice (Baritone) - Pacuvio Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Donna Fulvia Voice (Baritone) - Macrobio, a journalist Voice (Soprano) - Baroness Aspasia Voice (Bass) - Fabrizio |
Autotranslations beta |
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