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Template:Rossini operas Adina is an operatic farsa in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera develops the popular theme of the "abduction from the seraglio".[1] [2] The première took place on June 22, 1826, at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon.
Composition history
Adina was commissioned in 1818 by Diego Ignazio de Pina Manique, police superintendent of Lisbon and inspector of Portuguese theatres.[3] The plot is very similar to that of Francesco Basili's 1819 opera, Il califfo e la schiava, for which the libretto was written by Felice Romani, and some passages occur in both librettos - a mystery which has not yet been unravelled.[3]
The opera was intended as a gift for a now unknown soprano who had apparently enthralled the superintendent with her performances at São Carlos. The contract Rossini made was for a quick completion of the work, and the opera was finished in 1818, but, as a result of this time constraint, not all of the music in the opera is entirely original. Rossini composed anew only four of the work's nine numbers: the Introduction, the disarming Cavatina for Adina "Fragolette fortunate" (Lucky little strawberries), the Quartet, and the Finale; for three others he turned to the opera Sigismondo written in 1814; the remaining two were written by a collaborator.[4]
Rossini did not write an overture for the opera because no overture was specified in the contract, and he took little interest in the project.[3] There is no apparent explanation for the eight-year gap between completion and first performance.
Performance history
After the opera's initial première it was not revived again until 1963, when it was performed at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena.[2]
Music historians have noted that the music of Adina is of slightly more serious nature than what is typical of other one-act operas of its time, especially one designated a "farsa". Some critics have described the opera as more of a semiserious opera in the "rescue" genre. Music critics praise the opera for avoiding pure archetypes and successfully achieving a unified style.[4] Richard Osborne in his "Master Musicians: Rossini" describes Adina as not only "...a pen-and-ink sketch rather than a full scale drawing...",[5] but also "...a winning reminder that he had not lost his old skill as a composer of farse."[6]
Roles
| Role[2] | Voice type | Premiere Cast, June 22, 1826 (Conductor: )[7] |
|---|---|---|
| Adina, a slave-girl | soprano | Luisa Valesi |
| Selimo, her former lover | tenor | Luigi Ravaglia |
| The Caliph, the unknown father of Adina | bass | Giovanni Orazio Cartagenova |
| Ali, a young Arab | bass | Gaspare Martinelli |
| Mustafa, gardener of the seraglio | bass | Filippo Spada |
| Male chorus | ||
Recordings
| Year | Cast: Il Califfo, Adina, Selim, Ali |
Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra |
Label:[8] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Bruno Praticò, Alessandra Ruffini, Claudio Di Segni, Alfonso Antoniozzi |
Evelino Pidò, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Orchestra and Chorus (Video recording of a performance in the Teatro Valle, Rome, May) |
DVD: House of Opera Cat: DVDCC 110 |
| 2003 | Marco Vinco, Joyce DiDonato, Raúl Giménez, Saimir Pirgu |
Renato Palumbo, Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Chorus (Recording of a performance in the Auditorium Pedrotti, Pesaro, August) |
CD: Celestial Audio Cat: CA 456 |
References
- Notes
- ^ Della Seta (2001). p. 524.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b c "Adina". humanties.chicago.edu. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
- ^ a b c Holden (2001). p. 783-784.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b Gallo (2002). p. ?.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Osborne, R. (1993). p. 215.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Osborne, R. (1993). p. 44.
{{cite book}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "AmadeusOnline.Net - Amanacco". Retrieved October 8, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|publsher=ignored (|publisher=suggested) (help) - ^ "Recordings of Adina". operadis-opera-discography.org.uk. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
- Sources
- Osborne, Richard (1993). Rossini. Dent. ISBN 0-460-86103-4.
- Osborne, Charles (1994). The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3.
- Della Seta, Fabrizio,(Ed.) (2001). Adina: Farsa in One Act by Gherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini" (The Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino Rossini, Section I: Operas). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-72861-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Holden, Amanda (Ed.) (2001). The New Penguin Opera Guide. Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4.
- Gallo, Denise (2002). Gioachino Rossini: A Guide to Research. Routledge. ISBN 0-8153-3474-5.