Nina (opera)
Nina, o sia La pazza per amore (Nina, or Madly in Love) is an opera, described in 1790 as a commedia in prosa ed in verso per musica, in two acts by Giovanni Paisiello to an Italian libretto by Giambattista (also Giovanni Battista) Lorenzi after Giuseppe Carpani's translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier's Nina, ou La folle par amour, set by Nicolas Dalayrac in 1786. The work is a sentimental comedy with set numbers, recitative and spoken dialog. It is set in Italy in the 18th century. Nina was first performed in a one-act version at the Teatro del Reale Sito di Belvedere in Caserta, San Leucio on 25 June 1789. The revised and familiar two-act work was presented at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in the autumn of 1790.
Roles
- Nina (soprano)
- Lindoro, her lover/Un Pastore (tenor)
- The Count, her father (bass)
- Susanna, her companion (mezzo-soprano)
- Giorgio, the Count’s valet (bass)
- A musician (tenor)
- Second musician
- Chorus (staff and patients at the sanatorium)
Discography
- Arts Music Hans Ludwig Hirsch, 1998
- Nuova Era Richard Bonynge, 2003
- (DVD) at IMDb, Ádám Fischer, 2002 (Zurich Opera)
- Archipel Ennio Gerelli, 2007
References
- Synopsis and essays
- A brief review of the DVD
- Synopsis, essay (1.7MB) (in Italian)
- Title page to the above (in Italian)
- Index page to the above (in Italian)
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