Bartolomeo Merelli information

Bartolomeo Merelli (19 May 1794 – 10 April 1879) was an Italian impresario and librettist, best known as the manager of the La Scala Milan opera house...

performed today. The success of Verdi's first opera, Oberto, led Bartolomeo Merelli, La Scala's impresario, to offer Verdi a contract for three more works...

coincidental meeting around April 1818 with an old school friend, Bartolomeo Merelli (who was to go on to a distinguished career), led to an offer to compose...

Borgogna melodramma 2 acts Bartolomeo Merelli 14 November 1818 Venice, Teatro San Luca Una follia farsa 1 act Bartolomeo Merelli 17 December 1818, lost Venice...

assistance to stage his opera in Milan. The La Scala impresario, Bartolomeo Merelli, agreed to put on Oberto (as the reworked opera was now called, with...

taken to somewhere private for the birth. In late 1838, Lanari and Bartolomeo Merelli, the impresario of La Scala, had negotiated for Strepponi, Moriani...

season of 1820-1821; the exact date is uncertain. The libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli is based on the play Die deutschen Kleinstädter [de] by August von...

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...

the hope of securing another commission. One came from Genoa via Bartolomeo Merelli on 13 January 1828 for a new opera for presentation on 7 April. However...

Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared by Bartolomeo Merelli (about whose tardiness the composer complained), based on the French...

Danilovich Menshikov, Russian statesman André Grétry: Pierre le Grand Bartolomeo Merelli, Italian impresario and librettist Lorenzo Ferrero: Risorgimento!...

triennial engagement thanks to Rossini's influence on the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli, Intendant at both Milan's Teatro alla Scala and Vienna's Imperial...

dei Fiorentini Lanassa melodramma eroico 2 acts Gaetano Rossi and Bartolomeo Merelli after La veuve du Malabar by Antoine-Marin Lemierre 26 December 1817...

opera eroica or "heroic" opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Bartolomeo Merelli (who later, as Intendant at La Scala, was to commission Verdi's first...

de Paris. In Milan she first went to audition with the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli, but was so struck with fright that she could not produce any sound...

voices we used to have. When Verdi presented the score of Nabucco to Bartolomeo Merelli, they said, 'There's no budget.' Verdi said, 'I've got Strepponi and...

Mantua during the carnival season of 1820–1821. It was not a success; Bartolomeo Merelli, the librettist, later blamed Eckerlin in part for its failure, writing...

1817 (lost) Samuele, oratorio in two parts in Italian, libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli, Bergamo, 1821 Atalia, dramma sacro per musica con apparato scenico...

Verdi's Il trovatore to her husband's Manrico. In 1882 she joined Bartolomeo Merelli's traveling opera troupe with whom she performed in Berlin (1882) and...

promote it with opera managements, but somehow it was acquired by Bartolomeo Merelli, who became impresario of La Scala in 1836 and despite the protests...

which became his first major success. Ferretti worked on revising Bartolomeo Merelli's libretto for the opera. Altogether, Ferretti wrote about 70 librettos...