Una follia is a farsa in one act by composer Gaetano Donizetti. The work premiered on 15 December 1818 at the Teatro San Luca in Venice. The opera uses the same Italian-language libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli after August von Kotzebue's Der Graf von Burgund that Donizetti used for his Enrico di Borgogna a month earlier, but with different music. It was given one performance and "never performed again, and its score has never been found."[1]
Una follia | |
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Farsa by Gaetano Donizetti | |
Librettist | Bartolomeo Merelli |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Der Graf von Burgund by August von Kotzebue |
Premiere | 15 December 1818 Teatro San Luca in Venice |
Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast,[2] 15 December 1818 (Conductor:) |
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Brunone | baritone | Giuseppe Fioravanti |
Elisa | mezzo-soprano | Adelina Catalani |
Enrico | contralto | Fanny Eckerlin |
Geltrude | soprano | Adelaide Cassago |
Gilberto | bass | Andrea Verni |
Nicola | bass | Pietro Verducci |
Pietro | tenor | Giuseppe Fusconi |
Guido | tenor | Giuseppe Eliodoro Spech |
Bruno | bass | Pietro Verducci |
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