Torvaldo e Dorliska

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

La cambiale di matrimonio (1810)
L'equivoco stravagante (1811)
L'inganno felice (1812)
Ciro in Babilonia (1812)
La scala di seta (1812)
Demetrio e Polibio (1812)
La pietra del paragone (1812)
L'occasione fa il ladro (1812)
Il signor Bruschino (1813)
Tancredi (1813)
L'italiana in Algeri (1813)
Aureliano in Palmira (1813)
Il turco in Italia (1814)
Sigismondo (1814)
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815)
Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815)
The Barber of Seville (1816)
La gazzetta (1816)
Otello (1816)
La Cenerentola ( 1817)
La gazza ladra (1817)
Armida (1817)
Adelaide di Borgogna (1817)
Mosè in Egitto (1818)
Ricciardo e Zoraide (1818)
Adina (1818)
Ermione (1819)
Eduardo e Cristina (1819)
La donna del lago (1819)
Bianca e Falliero (1819)
Maometto II (1820)
Matilde di Shabran (1821)
Zelmira (1822)
Semiramide (1823)
Il viaggio a Reims (1825)
Le siège de Corinthe (1826)
Ivanhoé (1826)
Moïse et Pharaon ( 1827)
Le comte Ory (1828)
Guillaume Tell ( 1829)

v • d • e

Torvaldo e Dorliska (Torvaldo and Dorliska) is an operatic dramma semiserio in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on Les amours du chevalier de Faubles by the revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, whose work was the source of the Lodoïska libretto set by Luigi Cherubini (1791), and Lodoiska set by Stephen Storace (1794), and Simon Mayr (1796).

Torvaldo and Dorliska is a rescue opera with an eventual happy ending. The inclusion of buffo roles is the reason for its designation as a 'semiserio' work, similar to Rossini's La gazza ladra.

1 Performance history
2 Roles
3 Selected recordings
4 Sources
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Performance history

Torvaldo and Dorliska was first performed at the Teatro Valle, Rome, on 26 December 1815. it remained in the repertory in Italy for many years though it was never a great critical success.

[edit] Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, December 26, 1815^[1] (Conductor: - )
Torvaldo	tenor	Domenico Donzelli
Dorliska, wife of Torvaldo	soprano	Adelaide Sala
Duke of Ordow	bass	Filippo Galli
Giorgio, guardian of the castle	baritone	Raniero Remorini
Carlotta, his wife	mezzo-soprano	Agnese Loiselet
Ormondo	bass	Cristoforo Bastianelli

[edit] Selected recordings

Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska - Czech Chamber Soloists

Conductor: Alessandro de Marchi
Principal singers: Mauto Utzeri, Michele Bianchini, Anna Rita Gemmabella, Paola Cigna, Huw Rhys-Evans
Recording date: 10, 12, 17 July 2003 (Rossini in Wildbad Festival)
Label: Naxos - 8.660189-90 (CD)