Eduardo e Cristina
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Eduardo e Cristina is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto originally written by Giovanni Schmidt for Odoardo e Cristina (1810), an opera by Stefano Pavesi, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.
This pastiche work was composed in a great hurry for a first performance arranged less than a month after the premiere of Ermione. Rossini borrowed some of the music from his other works, Adelaide di Borgogna, Ricciardo e Zoraide, as well as Ermione.
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[edit] Performance history
Eduardo e Cristina was first performed at the Teatro Benedetto, Venice, on 24 April 1819.
[edit] Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, April 24, 1819 (Conductor: ) |
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| Carlo, King of Sweden | tenor | Eliodoro Bianchi |
| Cristina, his daughter, secret wife of Eduardo | soprano | Rosa Morandi |
| Eduardo, general of the Swedish army | contralto | Carolina Cortesi |
| Giacomo, royal prince of Scotland | bass | Luciano Bianchi |
| Atlei, captain of the guard, friend of Eduardo | bass | Vincenzo Fracalini |
| Gustavo, small child of Eduardo and Cristina | silent |
[edit] Selected recordings
Rossini: Eduardo e Cristina - I Virtuosi di Praga
- Conductor: Francesco Corti
- Principal singers: Eliseda Dumitru (Edoardo), Carmen Acosta (Cristina) Omar Jara (Carlo)
- Recording date: July 1997 at Bad Wildbad
- Label: Bongiovanni - (CD)
[edit] Sources
- Osborne, Richard: "Eduardo e Cristina" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Stanley Sadie (Ed.). (London: MacMillan, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- AmadeusOnLine.net almanac
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