Temistocle Solera
Temistocle Solera (Italian pronunciation: [teˈmistokle soˈlɛːra]; 25 December 1815 – 21 April 1878) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
Life and career
[edit | edit source]He was born in Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughout his life he actively participated in anti-Austrian resistance. At one point, he was incarcerated for his activities. He completed several literary works, including the novel Michelino, his style influenced by Alessandro Manzoni. He then found work as a librettist; his collaboration with the composer Giuseppe Verdi began in 1839 and lasted for a few years.[1]
Solera then found work as the impresario for the Royal Theatre in Madrid. He died in Milan in 1878.[1]
List of major works
[edit | edit source]Composer
[edit | edit source]- Ildegonda (1840)
- Il contadino d'Agliate (1841; rev. as La fanciulla di Castelguelfo in 1842)
- Genio e sventura (1843)
- La hermana de Pelayo (1845)[2] (Pelayo is a Spanish national hero, the leader of Christian resistance in the Cantabrian mountains against the Arab invasion in the early eighth century)
Librettist
[edit | edit source]- For Giuseppe Verdi
- Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (1839)
- Nabucco (1842)
- I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843)
- Giovanna d'Arco (1845)
- Attila (1846)
- For other composers
- Galeotto Manfredi (Carlo Hermann; 1842)
- La conquista di Granata (Emilio Arrieta, 1850)
- La fanciulla delle Asturie (Benedetto Secchi; 1856)
- Sordello. Also produced as L'Indovina (Antonio Buzzi, 1856; Salvador Giner Vidal, 1870)
- Pergolese (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, 1857)
- Vasconcello (Angelo Villanis; 1858)
- Una notte di festa (Angelo Villanis; 1859)
- L'espiazione (Achille Peri, 1861)
- Zilia (Gaspar Villate, 1877)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b O'Grady, Dierdre. The last troubadours: poetic drama in Italian opera 1597-1887. (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991). 214.
- ^ (Advert of performance at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona, in Diario de Barcelona, 8 January 1853)
External links
[edit | edit source]- OperaGlass
- Loreta de Stasio y José María Nadal. "Sobre el libreto de La conquista di Granata, de Temistocle Solera". Publicado en Mundoclasico.com (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) el 7 July 2006
- Mundoclasico.com[permanent dead link]
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- 1815 births
- 1878 deaths
- Burials at the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano
- Italian opera composers
- Italian male opera composers
- Italian opera librettists
- Italian impresarios
- Italian opera managers
- Musicians from Ferrara
- 19th-century Italian classical composers
- University of Pavia alumni
- Italian male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Italian male writers
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