Amleto
Sign in to saveAmleto () is an Italian opera in four acts by Franco Faccio set to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It premiered on 30 May 1865 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and was revised for a La Scala production given on 12 February 1871.
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17 sectionsContents
- Composition history
- Performance history
- Genoa premiere
- La Scala revised version
- 21st century revivals
- Roles
- Instrumentation
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Preparation of the critical edition of ''Amleto''
- Recordings
- See also
- References
- External links
Amleto () is an Italian opera in four acts by Franco Faccio set to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It premiered on 30 May 1865 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and was revised for a La Scala production given on 12 February 1871.
The collaboration and friendship between librettist and composer was to last throughout Faccio's lifetime. In addition (as musicologist William Ashbrook states): "Amleto marks an effort of two prominent members of the Scapigliatura (a late Romantic reform movement in northern Italy in the 1860s and 70s) to renew the tradition of Italian opera."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amleto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.