Emma di Resburgo
Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer · libretto by Gaetano Rossi · premiered 1819 · at Teatro San Benedetto
Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) is a melodramma eroico (a heroic, serious opera) in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. It was the composer's sixth opera and the third that he wrote for an Italian theatre. The libretto in Italian by Gaetano Rossi is set in Scotland and has the same storyline as previous operas by Étienne Méhul (Héléna, Paris, 1803, to a French text) and Simon Mayr (Elena, Naples, 1814, with an Italian text). Meyerbeer's opera had its premiere at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 26 June 1819.
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About the Composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'. Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. They set a standard that helped to maintain Paris as the opera capital of the…
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Other Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Jephtas Gelübde (1812)
- Die beiden Kalifen (1813)
- L'esule di Granata (1822)
- Il crociato in Egitto (1824)
- Ein Feldlager in Schlesien (1844)
- L'étoile du nord (1854)
- Dinorah (1859)
- L'Africaine (1865)