List of operas by Riccardo Zandonai
This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944).
List
[edit]| Title | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La coppa del re | 1 act | Gustavo Chiesa, after Friedrich Schiller | composed 1906 or before, never performed | ||
| L'uccellino d'oro | 3 acts | Father Giovanni Chelodi, after the Grimm brothers | spring 1907 | Sacco di Rovereto | Unpublished. Zandonai's version is for piano and singers only. A performing edition was made by the conductor Silvio de Florian (1908–1995) in 1959. |
| Il grillo del focolare | 3 acts | Cesare Hanau, after Charles Dickens' The Cricket on the Hearth | 28 November 1908 | Turin, Politeama Chiarella | |
| Conchita | 4 acts | Maurice Vaucaire and Carlo Zangarini, after Pierre Louÿs' La Femme et le pantin | 14 October 1911 | Milan, Teatro Dal Verme | |
| Melenis[1] | 3 acts | Massimo Spiritini and Carlo Zangarini, after Louis Bouilhet | 13 November 1912 | Milan, Teatro Dal Verme | |
| Francesca da Rimini | 4 acts | Tito Ricordi II, adapted from the play by Gabriele D'Annunzio | 19 February 1914 | Turin, Teatro Regio | |
| La via della finestra | 3 acts | Giuseppe Adami, after Eugène Scribe | 27 July 1919 | Pesaro, Teatro Rossini | |
| Giulietta e Romeo | 3 acts | Arturo Rossato and Matteo Bandello, after Luigi da Porto and N d'Atri | 14 February 1922 | Rome, Teatro Costanzi | There is a German version with libretto by Alfred Brüggemann (1873–1944). |
| I cavalieri di Ekebù | 4 acts | Arturo Rossato, after Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berling's Saga | 7 March 1925 | Milan, La Scala | German version with libretto by Ernst Lert titled Die Kavaliere von Ekeby |
| Giuliano | prologue, 2 acts, epilogue | Arturo Rossato, after Jacobus de Voragine and Gustave Flaubert | 4 February 1928 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo | based on the legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller |
| Una partita | 1 act | Arturo Rossato, after Alexandre Dumas, père | 19 January 1933 | Milan, La Scala | |
| La farsa amorosa | 3 acts | Arturo Rossato, after El sombrero de tres picos by Pedro de Alarcón | 22 February 1933 | Rome, Teatro dell'Opera | |
| Il bacio | 3 acts | Arturo Rossato and Emidio Mucci, after Gottfried Keller | 10 March 1954 | RAI | final act left incomplete |
References
[edit]- ^ Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea, Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by G Cesari, page 19.
- Waterhouse, John C. G. (1992), "Zandonai, Riccardo" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7