Chatterton
Chatterton è un’opera in italian di Ruggero Leoncavallo, rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1896.
Chatterton is a dramma lirico or opera in three acts by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The libretto was written by the composer himself and is freely adapted from the life of the young English poet from Bristol, Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770). Although composed in 1876, it premiered 20 years later on 10 March 1896, at the Teatro Drammatico Nazionale in Rome.
Trama di Chatterton
Chatterton lives as a lodger in a wealthy home. Unable to live by his writing, he has to look for a job to support himself. Unfortunately, he can only get a job as a servant. The other aspect of the situation is his thwarted and concealed love for Jenny Clark (Kitty Bell in Vigny's play), the wife of the industrialist who is his landlord. Finally, faced with an impossible love and a menial job, a despairing Chatterton kills himself. He is followed immediately in death by Jenny.
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Cast e personaggi di Chatterton
7 personaggi documentati da Wikidata con indicazione del registro vocale:
- personJohn Clark (bass)
- personSkirner (tenor)
- personThomas Chatterton (tenor)
- personJenny Clark (soprano)
- personYoung Henry (soprano)
- personGiorgio (baritone)
- personLord Klifford (baritone)
Libretto di Chatterton
Il libretto è scritto da Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Da Chatterton all’opera
Chatterton è un adattamento di Chatterton — soggetto letterario di partenza per il libretto.
Opere contemporanee
Rappresentate nel decennio a cavallo del 1896, altre 6 opere del repertorio archiviato di compositori diversi:
- La damnation de Faust — Hector Berlioz (1893)
- La Navarraise — Jules Massenet (1894)
- Regina Diaz — Umberto Giordano (1894)
- Thaïs — Jules Massenet (1894)
- The Beginning of a Romance — Leoš Janáček (1894)
- Frédégonde — Camille Saint-Saëns (1895)
Altre opere di Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Pagliacci (1892)
- I Medici (1893)
- La bohème (1897)
- La bohème (1897)
- Zazà (1900)
- Der Roland von Berlin (1904)
- Zingari (1912)
- Are You There? (1913)
- Mameli (1916)
- Edipo re (1920)
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