Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux by Alexandre Dumas père
Premiere
26 December 1834 (1834-12-26)
La Scala, Milan
Gemma di Vergy is an 1834 tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Giovanni Emanuele Bidera. It is based on the tragedy Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux(Charles VII and His Chief Vassals) (1831) by Alexandre Dumas père,[1] which was later to become the subject of the opera The Saracen by the Russian composer César Cui.
The heroine is the childless wife of the Count of Vergy, and the plot deals with her jealousy and grief as her husband arranges an annulment of their marriage in preparation for the arrival of his new bride, Ida, and her despair following the murder of her husband by a slave, Tamas, who is secretly in love with her.
Gemma di Vergy was first performed on 26 December 1834 at the La Scala, Milan. The leading role was taken by the Italian soprano Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Donizetti's favourite prima donna at the time,[2] for whom he had previously composed Fausta (1832 ), and for whom he was later to compose Roberto Devereux (1837).
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letters to friends reveal two things: that he continued to work on GemmadiVergy that autumn for its performance in Paris on 16 December, and that he...
located in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, pp. 580–581). L'ira di Achille: Donizetti set the first act and a duet from Act 2 scene v. The libretto...
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Riccardo in Bellini's I Puritani, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, the Count of Vergy in GemmadiVergy and filming Donizetti's La Favorite, among others...
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dell’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano. 2014 Warner Classics Gaetano Donizetti, GemmadiVergy, Maria Agresta as Gemma. A live recording...
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story – not to marry in old age – is revealed in a playful quartet (La moral di tutto questo – "The moral of all this"). Notes Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p...
as Assur in Gioachino Rossini's Semiramide, the Count of Vergy in Donizetti's GemmadiVergy, Giorgio Talbot in Maria Stuarda, and Guido della Torre in...
(named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda...
Gaetano Donizetti: GemmadiVergy (Montserrat Caballé (GemmadiVergy), Paul Plishka (Guido), Luis Lima (Tamas), Louis Quilico (Count diVergy), Natalya Chudy...
It was revived for an Italian premiere in Padua under the title of Leonora di Guzman in 1842 with baritone Achille De Bassini in the role of Alfonso, and...
Arturo in Bellini's La straniera, in 1834 that of Tamas in Donizetti's GemmadiVergy and in 1835 that of Leicester in his Maria Stuarda. At the Teatro San...
the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1854 in the title role of Donizetti's GemmadiVergy. Later in her career she also sang the title roles in his La Favorita...
important operas specifically for her: Fausta, Sancia di Castiglia, Maria Stuarda, GemmadiVergy, and Roberto Devereux. Her Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux...
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