La tempesta (opera)
La tempesta is an Italian-language opera by Fromental Halévy based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest which was an 1850 commission for Her Majesty's Theatre London, which required an opera in Italian, as was normal for such commissions. Eugène Scribe repurposed an existing French libretto which was translated into Italian.[1] The opera was revived at the Wexford Opera Festival in 2022.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Fromental Halévy and His Operas, 1799–1841, Robert Letellier, Nicholas Lester Fuller, 2021, p. 61: "... La Tempesta in London. This was further a unique moment in his collaboration with Scribe. It was an incredible age in the history of opera, with some of the greatest legends of vocal art among the concourse of artists Halévy met in ...
- ^ "Rough magic: Fromental Halévy’s La Tempesta opens Wexford Opera Festival" by Roy Westbrook, Bachtrack, 22 October 2022
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