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Salvatore Cammarano (born Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, 19 March 1801 - died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 librettist and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
 (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
.

For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for L'assedio di Calais
L'assedio di Calais

L'assedio di Calais is a melodramma lirico, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's play and, secondarily, Luigi Henry's ballet , both based on Pierre Du Belloy's play Le si?ge de Calais ....
 (1836), Belisario
Belisario

Belisario is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of Eduard von Schenk's play....
 (1836), Pia de' Tolomei
Pia de' Tolomei

Pia de' Tolomei is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Bartolomeo Sestini's novella, in its turn after Dante's narrative poem The Divine Comedy part 2: Purgatorio#Purgatorio....
 (1837), Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre....
 (1837), Maria de Rudenz
Maria de Rudenz

Maria de Rudenz is a dramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three parts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano....
 (1838), Poliuto
Poliuto

Poliuto is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte ....
 (1838), and Maria di Rohan
Maria di Rohan

Maria di Rohan is a melodramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano, after Lockroy and Edmond Badon's Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu, which had played in Paris in 1832....
 (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani
Giuseppe Persiani

Giuseppe Persiani was an Italy opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career....
 he was the author of Ines de Castro
Inęs de Castro

In?s P?rez de Castro was a Galician people noblewoman, daughter of Pedro Fernandez de Castro. She is best known as lover and posthumously declared lawful wife of List of Portuguese monarchs Peter I of Portugal, and therefore Queen consort of Portugal....
.

For Verdi he wrote Alzira
Alzira (opera)

Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Am?ricains by Voltaire....
 (1845), La battaglia di Legnano
La battaglia di Legnano

La battaglia di Legnano is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. It was based on the Play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph M?ry....
 (1849) and Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller....
 (1849) and was the joint librettist with Leone Emanuele Bardare for Il trovatore
Il trovatore

Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play El Trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
 (1853).






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Salvatore Cammarano (born Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, 19 March 1801 - died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 librettist and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
 (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
.

For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for L'assedio di Calais
L'assedio di Calais

L'assedio di Calais is a melodramma lirico, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's play and, secondarily, Luigi Henry's ballet , both based on Pierre Du Belloy's play Le si?ge de Calais ....
 (1836), Belisario
Belisario

Belisario is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of Eduard von Schenk's play....
 (1836), Pia de' Tolomei
Pia de' Tolomei

Pia de' Tolomei is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Bartolomeo Sestini's novella, in its turn after Dante's narrative poem The Divine Comedy part 2: Purgatorio#Purgatorio....
 (1837), Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre....
 (1837), Maria de Rudenz
Maria de Rudenz

Maria de Rudenz is a dramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three parts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano....
 (1838), Poliuto
Poliuto

Poliuto is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte ....
 (1838), and Maria di Rohan
Maria di Rohan

Maria di Rohan is a melodramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano, after Lockroy and Edmond Badon's Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu, which had played in Paris in 1832....
 (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani
Giuseppe Persiani

Giuseppe Persiani was an Italy opera composer. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage the soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who was to become a significant singer in her time, he devoted much of his efforts to supporting her career....
 he was the author of Ines de Castro
Inęs de Castro

In?s P?rez de Castro was a Galician people noblewoman, daughter of Pedro Fernandez de Castro. She is best known as lover and posthumously declared lawful wife of List of Portuguese monarchs Peter I of Portugal, and therefore Queen consort of Portugal....
.

For Verdi he wrote Alzira
Alzira (opera)

Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Am?ricains by Voltaire....
 (1845), La battaglia di Legnano
La battaglia di Legnano

La battaglia di Legnano is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. It was based on the Play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph M?ry....
 (1849) and Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller....
 (1849) and was the joint librettist with Leone Emanuele Bardare for Il trovatore
Il trovatore

Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play El Trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
 (1853). Cammarano also started a libretto for a proposed adaptation of the William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 play King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
, named Re Lear
Re Lear

Re Lear is an Italian language operatic libretto in four acts written by Antonio Somma for Giuseppe Verdi , based on King Lear, "the William Shakespeare play with which Verdi struggled for so many years, but without success" ....
, but he died before completing it (a detailed scenario survives).

Opera libretti


1834
  • La sposa (Egisto Vignozzi)
1835
  • Ines de Castro (Giuseppe Persiani), in collaboration with Giovanni Emanuele Bidera
  • Un matrimonio per ragione (Giuseppe Staffa)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor
    Lucia di Lammermoor

    Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor....
     (Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
    )
1836
  • Belisario
    Belisario

    Belisario is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of Eduard von Schenk's play....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
  • L'assedio di Calais
    L'assedio di Calais

    L'assedio di Calais is a melodramma lirico, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Luigi Marchionni's play and, secondarily, Luigi Henry's ballet , both based on Pierre Du Belloy's play Le si?ge de Calais ....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
  • Eufemio di Messina (Giuseppe Persiani), from an original libretto by Felice Romani
    Felice Romani

    Felice Romani was an Italy poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini....
1837
  • Pia de' Tolomei
    Pia de' Tolomei

    Pia de' Tolomei is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Bartolomeo Sestini's novella, in its turn after Dante's narrative poem The Divine Comedy part 2: Purgatorio#Purgatorio....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
  • Roberto Devereux
    Roberto Devereux

    Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
1838
  • Maria de Rudenz
    Maria de Rudenz

    Maria de Rudenz is a dramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three parts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
  • Poliuto
    Poliuto

    Poliuto is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto after Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte ....
     (Gaetano Donizetti), first performance 1848
  • Elena da Feltre (Saverio Mercadante
    Saverio Mercadante

    File:Saverio Mercadante by Cefaly.jpgGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italy composer, particularly of operas....
    )
1839
  • I ciarlatani (Luigi Cammarano)
  • Il Conte di Chalais (Giuseppe Lillo)
1840
  • Cristina di Svezia (Alessandro Nini
    Alessandro Nini

    Alessandro Nini was an Italy composer of operas and church music, also chamber music and symphony. Of the eight operas he composed, La marescialla d'Ancre is considered his best work....
    )
  • Saffň
    Saffň

    Saff? is an opera in three acts by Giovanni Pacini on a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on a play by Franz Grillparzer, after the legend of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho....
     (Giovanni Pacini
    Giovanni Pacini

    Giovanni Pacini was an Italy composer, best known for his operas....
    )
  • La vestale
    La vestale (Mercadante)

    La vestale is an opera by the Italy composer Saverio Mercadante. It takes the form of a tragedia lirica in three acts. The libretto, by Salvatore Cammarano, is heavily influenced by Spontini's more famous opera on the same theme, La vestale ....
     (Saverio Mercadante)
1841
  • Luigi Rolla (Federico Ricci
    Federico Ricci

    Federico Ricci , was an Italy composer, particularly of operas.Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works....
    )
1842
  • Il proscritto (Saverio Mercadante)
  • La fidanzata corsa (Giovanni Pacini)
1843
  • Maria di Rohan
    Maria di Rohan

    Maria di Rohan is a melodramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian language libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano, after Lockroy and Edmond Badon's Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu, which had played in Paris in 1832....
     (Gaetano Donizetti)
  • Il reggente (Saverio Mercadante)
  • Ester d'Engaddi (Achille Peri)
  • Il ravvedimento (Luigi Cammarano)
1845
  • Bondelmonte (Giovanni Pacini)
  • Alzira
    Alzira

    Alzira may refer to:*Alzira , an opera by Giuseppe Verdi*Alzira, Valencia, a town in Spain, also known as Alcira...
     (Giuseppe Verdi)
  • Il vascello de Gama (Saverio Mercadante)
  • Stella di Napoli (Giovanni Pacini)
1846
  • Orazi e Curiazi
    Orazi e Curiazi

    Orazi e Curiazi is an opera by the Italy composer Saverio Mercadante. It takes the form of a tragedia lirica in three acts. The libretto, by Salvatore Cammarano is based on the Ancient Rome legend of the fight between the Horatii....
     (Saverio Mercadante)
1847
  • Merope
    Merope

    Merope was the name of several, probably unrelated, characters in Greek mythology.* Merope , one of the Heliades, daughter of Helios and Clymene...
     (Giovanni Pacini)
  • Eleonora Dori (Vincenzo Battista)
1849
  • La battaglia di Legnano
    La battaglia di Legnano

    La battaglia di Legnano is an opera in four acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian-language libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. It was based on the Play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph M?ry....
     (Giuseppe Verdi)
  • Luisa Miller
    Luisa Miller

    Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller....
     (Giuseppe Verdi)
1850
  • Virginia (Saverio Mercadante), first performance 1866
  • Non v'č fumo senza fuoco (Luigi Cammarano)
1851
  • Malvina di Scozia (Giovanni Pacini)
  • Folco d'Arles (Nicola De Giosa)
  • Medea
    Medea

    Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
     (Saverio Mercadante), from an original libretto by Felice Romani
1853
  • Il trovatore
    Il trovatore

    Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the Play El Trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez....
     (Giuseppe Verdi)


Sources

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
  • The Italian Romantic Libretto: A Study of Salvadore Cammarano, by J Black, Edinburgh 1984