Saverio Mercadante

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante ( baptized September 17, 1795 in Altamura near Bari, † December 17, 1870 in Naples) was an Italian composer whose main focus was the opera.

Life

Mercadante received his artistic training at the Collegio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples under Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli and won in 1818 with the cantata L' Unione delle belle arti first and brilliant success. From then on he devoted his activities as a composer almost exclusively the stage and wrote alone in the next five years 21 operas.

From 1827 to 1830 he worked in Madrid and other Spanish cities as a composer and conductor of the Italian opera theater.

On his return to Italy, he was appointed as the successor of Pietro Generali Kapellmeister of the cathedral of Novara in 1833. In 1840, he was the successor Zingarellis director of the Royal Conservatory in Naples, where he goes blind since 1861, died in 1870.

In August 1876 a monument was erected to him in Naples.

Mercadante is considered next to Bellini and Donizetti 's most important Italian opera composer of the time between Rossini and Verdi. He was very successful in his lifetime, his operas were often played in Italy and often abroad for years after its premiere. After 1880, its luster began to fade, however, and his operas appeared little more on the repertoire of opera houses. Since about 1970, Mercadante's operas are played Rossini in Wildbad or Wexford increased again especially in specializing in rarely performed operas Italian opera houses and festivals such as Martina Franca.

In addition, however Mercadante was also active as a composer of instrumental concertos. He wrote, for example, a series of flute concertos, of which the most famous probably the most likely to be in E minor.

Works

  • L' apoteosi d' Ercole (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1819)
  • Violenza e costanza, ossia I falsi monetarist (UA Teatro Nuovo, Naples 1820; Il castello dei later than spiriti, Lisbon 1825)
  • Anacreonte in Samo (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1820)
  • Il geloso ravveduto (UA Teatro Valle, Rome, 1820)
  • Scipione in Cartagine (UA Teatro Argentina, Rome, 1820)
  • Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia (UA Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 1821)
  • Elisa e Claudio, ossia L' amore protetto dall'amicizia (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1821)
  • Andronico (UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1821)
  • Il posto abbandonato, ossia Adele ed Emerico (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1822)
  • Amleto (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1822)
  • Alfonso ed Elisa ( UA Teatro Nuovo, Mantua, 1822; revised version as Aminta ed Argira, UA Reggio Emilia, 1823)
  • Didone abbandonata (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1823)
  • Gli sciti (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1823)
  • Costanzo ed Almeriska (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1823)
  • Gli amici di Siracusa ( UA Teatro Argentina, Rome, 1824)
  • Doralice (UA Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, 1824)
  • Le nozze di Telemaco ed Antiope ( pastiche, UA Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, 1824)
  • Il podesta di Burgos, ossia Il signore del villaggio (UA Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, 1824)
  • Nitocri (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1824)
  • Ipermestra (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1825)
  • Erode, ossia Marianna (UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1824)
  • Caritea, regina di Spagna ( Donna Caritea ), ossia La morte di Don Alfonso re di Porto Gallo ( UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1826)
  • Ezio (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1827)
  • Il montanaro (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1827)
  • La testa di brooklyn, ossia La capanna solitaria (UA private theater of Baron Quintella in Laranjeiras, Lisbon, 1827)
  • Adriano in Siria (UA Teatro de São Carlos, Lisbon, 1828)
  • Gabriella di Vergy (UA Teatro de São Carlos, Lisbon, 1828; revised version Genoa, 1832)
  • La rappresaglia (UA Teatro Principal, Cádiz, 1829)
  • Don Quixote all nozze di Gamaccio (UA Teatro Principal, Cádiz, 1830)
  • Francesca da Rimini (1831, probably not listed )
  • Zaira (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1831)
  • I normanni a Parigi (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1832)
  • Ismalia, Amore e morte ossia (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1832)
  • Il conte di Essex (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1833)
  • Emma d' Antiochia (UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1834)
  • Uggero il danese (UA Teatro Riccardi, Bergamo, 1834)
  • La gioventù di Enrico V ( UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1834)
  • I due Figaro (1827-1829; UA Teatro Principe, Madrid, 1835)
  • Francesca Donato, ossia Corinto distrutta (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1835; revised version: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1845)
  • I briganti (UA Théâtre Italien, Paris, 1836; revised and expanded version: 1853), according to Schiller's drama The Robbers
  • Il giuramento (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1837)
  • Le due illustri rivali (UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1838)
  • Elena da Feltre (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1839)
  • Il bravo (La Veneziana ) (UA La Scala, Milan, 1839)
  • La vestale (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1840)
  • La solitaria delle Asturias, ossia La Spagna ricuperata (UA Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1840)
  • Il proscritto (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1842)
  • Il Reggente (UA Teatro Regio, Turin, 1843; revised and expanded version: Trieste, 1843)
  • Leonora ( UA Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1844)
  • Il Vascello de Gama (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1845)
  • Orazi e Curiazi (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1846)
  • La schiava saracena, ovvero Il campo di Gerosolima (UA Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1848 Revised: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1850)
  • Medea (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1851)
  • Statira (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1853)
  • Violetta (UA Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1853)
  • Pelagio (UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1857)
  • Virginia (1845-1855; UA Teatro San Carlo, Naples 1866)
  • L' orfano di BrONO, ossia Caterina dei Medici ( only Act 1 )
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