Una follia

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Una follia

Farsa by Gaetano Donizetti

Donizetti as a young man

Librettist| Bartolomeo Merelli
Language| Italian
Based on| Der Graf von Burgund
by August von Kotzebue
Premiere|

15 December 1818 (1818-12-15)

Teatro San Luca in Venice

Una follia is a farsa in one act by composer Gaetano Donizetti. The work premiered on 15 December 1818 at the Teatro San 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 for his Enrico di Borgogna a month earlier, but with different music. It was given one performance and "never performed again, and its score has never been found."[1]

## Roles

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Role  | Voice type  | Premiere Cast,[2] 15 December 1818
(Conductor:)

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Brunone  | baritone | Giuseppe Fioravanti
Elisa  | mezzo-soprano | Adelina Catalani
Enrico  | contralto | Fanny Eckerlin
Geltrude  | soprano | Adelaide Cassago
Gilberto  | bass | Andrea Verni
Nicola  | bass  | Pietro Verducci
Pietro  | tenor  | Giuseppe Fusconi
Guido  | tenor  | Giuseppe Eliodoro Spech
Bruno  | bass  | Pietro Verducci

## References

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Notes

1. ^ Osborne, p. 143
2. ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Una follia, 15 December 1818". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

Cited sources

* Osborne, Charles, (1994), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3

Other sources

* Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury: Element Books, Ltd (UK); Rockport, MA: Element, Inc.(USA)
* Ashbrook, William (1982), Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23526-X
* Ashbrook, William (1998), "Donizetti, Gaetano" in Stanley Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. One. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-333-73432-7 ISBN 1-56159-228-5
* Ashbrook, William and Sarah Hibberd (2001), in Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4. pp. 224 – 247.
* Loewenberg, Alfred (1970). Annals of Opera, 1597-1940, 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield
* Sadie, Stanley, (Ed.); John Tyrell (Exec. Ed.) (2004), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2 (hardcover). ISBN 0-19-517067-9 OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
* Weinstock, Herbert (1963), Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Pantheon Books. LCCN 63-13703

## External links

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* Donizetti Society (London) website

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