Torvaldo e Dorliska (Torvaldo and Dorliska) is an operatic dramma semiserio in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).
Original Name | Torvaldo e Dorliska |
Librettist | Cesare Sterbini (based on Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai) |
Date of composition | 1815 |
Premiered | 1815, December 26th (Teatro Valle) in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy |
Type | Opera |
Spoken language | Italian |
Instruments |
Chorus/Choir
Orchestra Voice (Tenor) - Torvaldo Voice (Soprano) - Dorliska, wife of Torvaldo Voice (Bass) - Duke of Ordow Voice (Baritone) - Giorgio, guardian of the castle Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Carlotta, his sister Voice (Bass) - Ormondo |
Autotranslations beta |
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