Alessandro nelle Indie
Opera seria by Giovanni Pacini
Pacini
Librettist
LanguageItalian
Based onAlessandro nell'Indie
by Metastasio
Premiere
29 September 1824 (1824-09-29)
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

Alessandro nelle Indie (Alexander in India) is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola and Giovanni Schmidt, based on Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio. It was premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples on 29 September 1824, and had a total of 38 performances in its first season.

This opera is one of some 70 operatic works using Metastasio's text about Alexander the Great, most of which were written in the 18th century, starting with the work by Leonardo Vinci (1730).

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role[1] Voice type Premiere cast, 29 September 1824[2]
Conductor: Nicola Festa
Cleofide (Cleophis) soprano Adelaide Tosi
Poro soprano Caterina Lipparini
Alessandro Magno (Alexander the Great) tenor Andrea Nozzari
Gandarte tenor Giovanni Boccaccio
Timagene bass Carlo Moncada
Greek and Indian warriors, courtiers, priests

Recording

References

  1. ↑ Libretto of the first representation in Naples
  2. ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Alessandro nelle Indie, 29 September 1824". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  3. ↑ Vasta, Stephen F. (June 2008). "Pacini: Alessandro nell'Indie" (recording review). Opera News. Retrieved 19 October 2015 (subscription required).

Further reading

  • Balthazar, Scott L., "Alessandro nelle Indie", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. L. Macy.
  • Balthazar, Scott L. (with Michael Rose) (1997), "Giovanni Pacini", in Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New York: Grove (Oxford University Press), Vol. Three, pp. 808—812. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2
  • Marinelli-Roscioni, Carlo, Il Teatro di San Carlo La Cronologia 1737–1987, p. 191
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