Matilde di Shabran (full title: Matilde di Shabran, o sia Bellezza e Cuor di ferro; English: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Ironheart) is a melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine (1790, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde. The opera was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Apollo, 24 February 1821 conducted by the violinist Niccolo Paganini. The premiere was followed by a street brawl "between Rossini's admirers and his detractors."
Original Name | Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza e cuor di ferro |
Librettist | Jacopo Ferretti (after François-Benoît Hoffman and Jacques-Marie Monvel) |
Premiered | 1821, February 24th (Teatro Apollo) in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy |
First published | 1822 |
Type | Opera |
Spoken language | Italian |
Instruments |
Orchestra
Voice (Tenor) - Corradino, Cuor di ferro Chorus/Choir Voice (Soprano) - Matilde di Shabran Voice (Bass) - Raimondo Lopez, father of Edoardo Voice (Contralto) - Edoardo Voice (Baritone) - Aliprando, physician Voice (Bass) - Isidoro, poet Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Contessa d'Arco Voice (Bass) - Ginardo, keeper of the tower Voice (Tenor) - Egoldo, leader of the peasants Voice (Tenor) - Rodrigo, leader of the guards Silent Role - Udolfo, jailer |
Autotranslations beta |
Gioachino Rossini: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Heart of Iron Gioachino Rossini: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Heart of Iron Gioachino Rossini: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Heart of Iron |