Il bravo
Music by Saverio Mercadante · libretto by Gaetano Rossi · premiered 1839 · at La Scala
Il bravo, ossia La Veneziana ("The Assassin, or The Venetian Woman") is an opera in three acts by Saverio Mercadante to an Italian-language libretto by Gaetano Rossi and Marco Marcello. Their libretto was based on the play La Vénétienne by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, which was in turn based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Bravo. The opera premiered on 9 March 1839 at La Scala, Milan and subsequently played throughout Italy and abroad. The opera was still being occasionally performed and recorded in the 20th century. and was hailed as an "exciting rediscovery" when it was staged by the Wexford Festival in 2018.
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About the Composer
Saverio Mercadante is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Saverio Mercadante
- Elisa e Claudio (1821)
- Didone abbandonata (1823)
- Caritea, regina di Spagna (1826)
- I due Figaro (1826)
- Francesca da Rimini (1831)
- Il giuramento (1835)
- I briganti (1836)
- Elena da Feltre (1839)