Zampa

Zampa, or La Fiancée de marbre is the title of an opera by Louis Herold of 1831st

Content

Zampa is a pirate, who ruined and leave a girl named Alice Manfredi, many years ago. Alice has later, the rich merchant Lugano accepted. After her death, Lugano has erected a marble statue Alice, which is revered as a sacred image. As Lugano's daughter Camilla is about to marry her Desired partner Alfonso de Monza, Zampa intervenes and asks her hand. After long hesitation, agrees to Camilla, whose father is in Zampas hand, one, but during the wedding festivities attacks the immortalized in marble Alice a: Zampa is banished to the underworld and Camilla can Monza marry.

Reception

Zampa is one of the best-known works Hérold, the overture is played quite often. The comparison with Don Giovanni is certainly hardly justified. In 2005, the opera was performed again in the Stadttheater Gießen. 2008 there was an acclaimed new production at the Opéra -Comique in Paris under William Christie.

Maybe the horse name Zampa has something to do in Thomas Mann's novella Wälsungenblut with Hérold opera. However, it may also be that man came by Johann Nestroys Zampa the idler or the bride of gypsum or on very different paths to that name.