Crossword clues for ernani
ernani
- Verdi opus
- Verdi opera based on a Hugo play
- Title bandit in a Verdi opera
- 1844 Verdi work
- Verdi work whose title character is a bandit
- Title character in love with Elvira
- Verdi opera set in Aragon
- Elvira's love, in opera
- Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety
- Title bandit in a Verdi work
- Italian opera from a Hugo play
- Operatic offering by Verdi
Wikipedia
Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping first one and then another drama by Hugo into an acceptable libretto. As musicologist Roger Parker notes, the composer "intervened on several important points, insisting for example that the role of Ernani be sung by a tenor (rather than by a contralto as had originally been planned).
Ernani was first performed on 9 March 1844 and it was "immensely popular, and was revived countless times during its early years". It became Verdi's most popular opera until it was superseded by Il trovatore after 1853. In 1904 it became the first opera to be recorded completely.
The recording of Verdi's Ernani in 1903 by the Italian Gramophone Company, a part of HMV was the first complete opera recording. It was issued on 40 single-sided discs. The first complete orchestral recording, Arthur Nikisch's recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, was made in 1913.