First performance 28 February 1830 | ||
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Similar Francesca di Foix, Imelda de' Lambertazzi, Gabriella di Vergy, Ugo - conte di Parigi, Zoraida di Granata | ||
Il diluvio universale gaetano donizetti 1985 giaiotti dupuy garaventa dal monte bottion koenig
Il diluvio universale (The great flood) is an azione tragico-sacra, or opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni after Lord Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio (1788).
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- Il diluvio universale gaetano donizetti 1985 giaiotti dupuy garaventa dal monte bottion koenig
- Donizetti il diluvio universale mentre il core abbandonava perch nell alma yasuko hayashi
- Performance history
- Synopsis
- References
Donizetti il diluvio universale mentre il core abbandonava perch nell alma yasuko hayashi
Performance history
19th century
The opera premiered at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 6 March It failed to become an instant success.
It is known that for the premiere production to be accepted, it had to be given to the church censors in the form of an oratorio, since its planned production date was within the period of fasting. It was only allowed due to its being a biblical story.
Donizetti revised the opera and a new production opened on 17 January 1834 at Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice. But after another staging in 1837 in Paris, it disappeared for 147 years.
20th century and beyond
The opera was not presented again until 1985 in Genoa.
The first production in Switzerland took place at St. Gallen where, since 2006, an opera is presented in the open air in front of the Cathedral around the first weekend of July. The production of Il diluvio was also given at the St. Galler Festspiele 2010 when Mirco Palazzi, Majella Cullagh and Manuela Custer appeared.
Synopsis
The opera tells the biblical story of the great flood.