Edgar (opera)

  • Edgar, a young farmer (Tenor)
  • Gualtiero, an old farmer ( bass)
  • Fidelia and Frank, his children ( soprano and baritone)
  • Tigrana, a Moorish orphan, raised by Gualtiero (mezzo- soprano)
  • Warriors, monks, peasants (chorus )

Edgar is an opera in three or four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The libretto by Ferdinando Fontana. The opera was premiered in 1889 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Edgar is Puccini's second opera, for which he received an order from his publisher Ricordi after the success of his debut work Le Villi. The premiere of Edgar in the original version with four acts was a disappointment. In January 1890, published Ricordi a revised version with a revised deadline for the second act in the autumn of 1891 revised the Puccini opera again, and the last act was omitted. Also, the three-act version was not successful, what a further revision in 1905 did not change. The opera has virtually disappeared from the repertoire, only some parts survived in later works of Puccini, the duet " Amaro sol per te Mera il morire " from the third act of Tosca.

The story of Edgar has some resemblance to Carmen: An insecure young man (tenor: Edgar / Don José ) it is between the chaste youth love for a good girl from home (soprano: Fidelia / Micaela ) and the all-consuming passion for an exotic, but faithless wife (mezzo-soprano: Tigrana / Carmen ) decide. The outbreak of the ideal world failed as did the return in a conventional life.

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