Una follia

Una follia is a farsa in one act by composer Gaetano Donizetti. The work premiered on 15 December 1818 at the Teatro San Luca in Venice. The opera uses the same Italian-language libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli after August von Kotzebue's Der Graf von Burgund that Donizetti used for his Enrico di Borgogna a month earlier, but with different music. It was given one performance and "never performed again, and its score has never been found."^[1]

Una follia
Farsa by Gaetano Donizetti
Donizetti as a young man
Librettist	Bartolomeo Merelli
Language	Italian
Based on	Der Graf von Burgund by August von Kotzebue
Premiere	15 December 1818 (1818-12-15) Teatro San Luca in Venice

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast,[2] 15 December 1818 (Conductor:)
Brunone	baritone	Giuseppe Fioravanti
Elisa	mezzo-soprano	Adelina Catalani
Enrico	contralto	Fanny Eckerlin
Geltrude	soprano	Adelaide Cassago
Gilberto	bass	Andrea Verni
Nicola	bass	Pietro Verducci
Pietro	tenor	Giuseppe Fusconi
Guido	tenor	Giuseppe Eliodoro Spech
Bruno	bass	Pietro Verducci

References

Notes

1. Osborne, p. 143
2. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Una follia, 15 December 1818". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

Cited sources

• Osborne, Charles, (1994), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3

Other sources

• Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury: Element Books, Ltd (UK); Rockport, MA: Element, Inc.(USA)
• Ashbrook, William (1982), Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23526-X
• Ashbrook, William (1998), "Donizetti, Gaetano" in Stanley Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. One. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-333-73432-7 ISBN 1-56159-228-5
• Ashbrook, William and Sarah Hibberd (2001), in Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4. pp. 224 – 247.
• Loewenberg, Alfred (1970). Annals of Opera, 1597-1940, 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield
• Sadie, Stanley, (Ed.); John Tyrell (Exec. Ed.) (2004), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2 (hardcover). ISBN 0-19-517067-9 OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
• Weinstock, Herbert (1963), Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Pantheon Books. LCCN 63-13703

External links

• Donizetti Society (London) website