Ugo, conte di Parigi

Ugo, conte di Parigi
Opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Set design by Alessandro Sanquirico for the premiere
Librettist	Felice Romani
Language	Italian
Based on	Blanche d'Aquitaine by Hippolyte Bis
Premiere	13 March 1832 (1832-03-13) La Scala, Milan

Ugo, conte di Parigi (Hugo, Count of Paris) is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis's Blanche d'Aquitaine. It premiered on 13 March 1832 at La Scala, Milan.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 13 March 1832 (Conductor: – )
Bianca	soprano	Giuditta Pasta
Adelia, Bianca's sister	soprano	Giulia Grisi
Ugo, Count of Paris	tenor	Domenico Donzelli
Folco	bass	Vincenzo Negrini
Luigi V, King of France	contralto	Clorinda Corradi Pantanelli
Emma	mezzo-soprano	Felicita Baillou-Hillaret
Knights, soldiers, band

Synopsis

Time: 10th century

Place: Paris

See synopsis on opera-rara.com

Recordings

Year	Cast (Bianca, Ugo, Luigi, Emma)	Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra	Label
1977	Janet Price, Maurice Arthur, Della Jones, Eiddwen Harrhy	Alun Francis, New Philharmonia Orchestra and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir	Audio CD: Opera Rara Cat: ORC1
2003	Doina Dimitriu, Yasuharu Nakajima, Sim Tokyurek, Milijana Nikolic	Antonino Fogliani, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo.	Audio CD: Dynamic Cat: CDS 449/1-2

References

Notes

Cited sources

• Osborne, Charles, (1994), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0931340713

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 052123526X 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 0-140-29312-4. pp. 224 - 247.
• Black, John (1982), Donizetti’s Operas in Naples, 1822—1848. London: The Donizetti Society.
• 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 978-0195170672 (hardcover). ISBN 0195170679 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
• Libretto at ItalianOpera (in Italian)