Michele Carafa

Michele Enrico Francesco Paolo Vincenzo Carafa Aloisio de Colobrano (* November 28, 1785 in Naples, † July 26, 1872 in Paris ) was an Italian opera composer.

Only after he had participated in the campaigns against Napoleon as an officer, to Carafa turned to music. Carafa himself had enjoyed music lessons with Cherubini, but worked creatively rather in the manner of Rossini and Auber. Between 1837 and 1870 he was a teacher of composition at the Paris Conservatoire.

His first opera Il vascello d' occidente from 1814 to 1833 was followed by another 25 works, of which Le Solitaire and Masaniello are the most respected.

Works ( operas)

  • Il fantasma (1805, private theater Principe Caramanico, Naples)
  • Il prigioniero (1805, Naples)
  • La musicomania (1806, Paris)
  • Il vascello d' Occidente ( June 14, 1814 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
  • Mariti gli occhi aprite! ossia La gelosia corretta (1815 Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples) - reissue under the title Men! Eyes on! in the Neuburger Chamber Opera 2011
  • Gabriella di Vergy ( July 3, 1816 Teatro del Fondo, Naples)
  • Iphigenia in Tauride ( June 19, 1817 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
  • Adele di Lusignano ( September 27, 1817 Teatro alla Scala, Milan )
  • Berenice in Siria ( July 29, 1818 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
  • Elisabetta in Derbyshire, ossia Il castello di Fotheringhay ( December 26, 1818 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
  • Il sacrifizio d' EPITO ( December 26, 1819 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
  • I due Figaro, o sia Il soggetto di una commedia ( June 6, 1820 Teatro alla Scala, Milan ) - reissue with DVD -recording for Rossini in Wildbad 2006
  • La festa di BUSSONE ( June 28, 1820 Teatro Re, Milano )
  • Jeanne d' Arc à Orléans ( March 10, 1821 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • La capricciosa ed il soldato, o sia Un momento di lezione ( December 26, 1821 Teatro Apollo, Rome)
  • Le solitaire ( August 22, 1822 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Eufemio di Messina ( December 26, 1822 Teatro Argentina, Rome)
  • Abufar, ossia La famiglia araba ( June 28, 1823 Kärntnertortheater, Vienna)
  • Le valet de chambre ( September 16, 1823 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Tamerlano (written 1823-24 för Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
  • L' auberge supposée ( April 26, 1824 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Il sonnambulo ( November 13, 1824 Teatro alla Scala, Milan )
  • La belle au bois dormant (2, March 1825 Théâtre de l' Opéra, Paris)
  • Gl'italici e gl'indiani ( October 4, 1825 Teatro San Carlo, Naples)
  • Il pariah ( February 4, 1826 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
  • Sangarido ( May 19, 1827 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Les deux Figaro ( August 22, 1827 Théâtre Odéon, Paris)
  • Masaniello, ou Le pêcheur napolitain ( December 27, 1827 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • La violet ( October 7, 1828 Opéra -Comique, Paris), in collaboration with Leborne
  • Jenny ( September 26, 1829 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Le nozze di Lammermoor ( December 12, 1829 Théâtre-Italien, Paris)
  • L' auberge d' Aury ( May 11, 1830 Opéra -Comique, Paris), in collaboration with Herold
  • La lure de l' hermite ( August 11, 1831 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • La marquise de Brinvilliers ( October 31, 1831 Opéra -Comique, Paris), in collaboration with Auber, Batton, Berton, Blangini, Boieldieu, Cherubini, Herold, Paër
  • La prison d' EDINBURGH ( July 20, 1833 Opéra -Comique, Paris), by Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
  • La maison du rempart, ou Une journée de la Fronde ( November 7, 1833 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • La grande duchesse ( November 16, 1835 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Thérèse ( September 26, 1838 Opéra -Comique, Paris)
  • Les premiers pas ( November 15, 1847 Opéra National, Paris), in collaboration with Adam, Auber, Halévy
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