Ernani
Sign in to saveErnani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Ernani
- Opera.genre_header
- Opera
- Opera.composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Opera.image
- Silva sounds the horn to summon Hernani-act 4.png
- Opera.caption
- When all seems to be well, Silva sounds the trumpet call to Ernani to surrender.
- Opera.librettist
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Opera.language
- Italian
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Composition history
- The idea for ''Hernani''
- Setting the play as the opera, ''Ernani''
- Verdi and theatre
- Performance history
- 19th century
- 20th century and beyond
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Orchestration
- Music
- Recordings
- References
- Citations
- Cited sources
- Other sources
- External links
Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping first one and then another drama by Hugo into an acceptable libretto. As musicologist Roger Parker notes, the composer "intervened on several important points, insisting for example that the role of Ernani be sung by a tenor (rather than by a contralto as had originally been planned)".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ernani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.