I masnadieri (The Bandits or The Robbers) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, based on the play Die Räuber...

Rome 1585 (Italian: I masnadieri), also known as The Mercenaries, is a 1961 Italian epic adventure film co-written and directed by Mario Bonnard and starring...

Other dramatic roles of his have included Verdi's Nabucco, Don Carlo, I masnadieri, I Lombardi and Jérusalem, as well as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (he...

sensation. It later became the basis for Verdi's opera of the same name, I masnadieri. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers...

Pergola, Florence 14 Mar 1847 Based on work by William Shakespeare 11 I masnadieri Andrea Maffei 4 Italian Her Majesty's Theatre, London 22 Jul 1847 Based...

sang the role of Amalia at the Washington Concert Opera for Verdi's I Masnadieri in which she "achieved total triumph as Amalia, the trill-filled part...

of singing. During the 1980s, Sutherland added Anna Bolena, Amalia in I masnadieri, and Adriana Lecouvreur to her repertoire, and repeated Esclarmonde at...

Demand Verdi, I masnadieri, Downes/Delligatti/Farina/Hvorostovsky/Colombara, 1998, live at Baden-Baden, House of Opera Verdi, I masnadieri,...

Coletti created two Verdi roles: Gusmano in Alzira and Francesco in I masnadieri. Verdi revised the role of Germont in La traviata for Coletti, whose...

following passage from the libretto by Andrea Maffei for Giuseppe Verdi's I masnadieri has been called "musical stichomythia", though it does not contain repetition...

multi-author Requiem for Rossini), Verdi wrote: "If I were in the good graces of the Holy Father—Pope Pius IX—I would beg him to permit—if only for this one...

Source: Abigaille, Nabucco (Verdi) Alaide, La straniera (Bellini) Amalia, I masnadieri (Verdi) Aminta, Die schweigsame Frau (Richard Strauss) Anne, The Rake's...

lay this letter on my heart when they bury me." Verdi had completed I masnadieri for London by May 1847 except for the orchestration. This he left until...

on the music for Macbeth. (Maffei was already writing a libretto for I masnadieri, which was based on the suggested Schiller play, but it could have been...

1847 Les martyrs, Donizetti, 1840 The Mask of Orpheus, Birtwistle, 1968 I masnadieri, Verdi, 1847 Masquerade, Nielsen, 1906 Mateo Falcone, Cui, 1907 Mathis...

Stuarda, Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Ophélie, Hamlet (Thomas) Amalia, I masnadieri (Verdi) Anna Bolena, Anna Bolena (Donizetti) The Countess, Capriccio...

Verdi's Ernani, and Nabucco, and I Lombardi received their British premieres in 1845–46, and Lumley commissioned I masnadieri from the composer. It received...

London. In July 1847, Lind starred in the world première of Verdi's opera I masnadieri at Her Majesty's Theatre, under the baton of the composer. During her...

initially asked Francesco Maria Piave (with whom he had already created Ernani, I due Foscari, Macbeth, Il corsaro and Stiffelio) to examine the play Kean by...

an orchestral ritornello. The lyrics are based on a phrase by King Francis I of France, Souvent femme varie, bien fol qui s'y fie. [Women are fickle, and...

"this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born...

him an 'original' or 'provocative' idea". Writing to Piave, he added that "I don't want any of those everyday subjects that one can find by the hundreds...

Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847/65) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849)...

Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847/65) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849)...

condemnation. In this tomb that was opened for you I entered secretly. Here, away from human sight, in your arms I wish to die." ​My Darlin' Aida​ at the Internet...

Filippo Coletti, creator of Verdi's Gusmano in Alzira, Francesco in I masnadieri, Germont in the second version of La traviata and for whom Verdi considered...

impresario at Her Majesty's Theatre, had successfully presented Verdi's I masnadieri there in 1847. In his 1864 autobiography he notes that "none perhaps...

role in Donizetti's Don Pasquale in 1843 and Massimiliano in Verdi's I masnadieri in 1847. Towards the close of his career he played two new characters...

Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847/65) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849)...

and in the company of Andrea Maffei (who was writing the libretto for I masnadieri): to adapt Schiller's Kabale und Liebe. Therefore, he sent a synopsis...