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Amilcare Ponchielli – I Lituani
Lyric drama in a Prologue and three acts. Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on Adam Mickiewicz’s narrative poem Konrad Wallenrod (1828). First performed at La Scala, Milan, on 7 March 1874. Prologue Near Marienburg, towards the end of the fourteenth century German troops are sweeping across the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, destroying all resistance. […]
Etienne-Nicholas Méhul – Uthal
Opera in one act. Libretto by Jacques Maximilien Benjamin Bins de Saint-Victor, loosely based on the poem Berrathon, the final poem in the first volume of James Macpherson’s Ossian poems. First performed at the Opéra Comique in Paris on 17 May 1806. Méhul (postcard in the author’s collection) The story of the opera is […]
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