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- Giuseppe Verdi
I Vespri Siciliani (Sicilian Vespers) (1871)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
G. Schirmer controls the rights in the English translation by William Weaver for this work but does not supply orchestral materials.
- Libretto by E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier. English translation by William Weaver.
- English
Programme Note
Cast List:
GUIDO DI MONFORTE, French governor of Sicily for Charles of Anjou: Baritone
SIRE DI BETHUNE, a French officer: Bass
CONTE VAUDEMONT, a French officer: Bass
ARRIGO, a young Sicilian: Tenor
GIOVANNI DA PROCIDA, Sicilian physician and patriot: Bass
ELENA, Duchess and sister of Friedrich of Austria: Soprano
NINETTA, her maid: Contralto
DANIELI, a Sicilian, engaged to Ninetta: Tenor
TEBALDO, a French soldier: Bass
MANFREDO, a Sicilian: Tenor
Sicilian Men and Women, French Soldiers, Pages, Noblemen and Noblewomen, Officers, Monks, an Executioner.
Synopsis:
This opera, commissioned for the 1855 Great Exhibition in Paris, tells the story of the occupation of Sicily by the French in the thirteenth century. The work culminates with the slaughter of the unarmed French by the Sicilians, the signal for which is the ringing of the bells at the wedding of Arrigo, a young Sicilian and the Duchess Elena, daughter of the French governor.
GUIDO DI MONFORTE, French governor of Sicily for Charles of Anjou: Baritone
SIRE DI BETHUNE, a French officer: Bass
CONTE VAUDEMONT, a French officer: Bass
ARRIGO, a young Sicilian: Tenor
GIOVANNI DA PROCIDA, Sicilian physician and patriot: Bass
ELENA, Duchess and sister of Friedrich of Austria: Soprano
NINETTA, her maid: Contralto
DANIELI, a Sicilian, engaged to Ninetta: Tenor
TEBALDO, a French soldier: Bass
MANFREDO, a Sicilian: Tenor
Sicilian Men and Women, French Soldiers, Pages, Noblemen and Noblewomen, Officers, Monks, an Executioner.
Synopsis:
This opera, commissioned for the 1855 Great Exhibition in Paris, tells the story of the occupation of Sicily by the French in the thirteenth century. The work culminates with the slaughter of the unarmed French by the Sicilians, the signal for which is the ringing of the bells at the wedding of Arrigo, a young Sicilian and the Duchess Elena, daughter of the French governor.