Il convitato di pietra
Music by Giovanni Pacini · premiered 1832
Il convitato di pietra is an 1832 opera by Pacini originally written for private performance by the composer's own family and friends. The libretto by Gaetano Barbieri, librettist of Il Talismano, was compiled from earlier librettos telling the story of Mozart's Don Giovanni, including Bertati's for Gazzaniga, but with changes including the removal of the role of Elvira.
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About the Composer
Giovanni Pacini (11 February 1796 – 6 December 1867) was an Italian composer from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He is best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, living in Catania when the composer was born. He served as the Florence Conservatory's first director from 1849 through 1862. His first 25 or so operas were written when Gioachino Rossini dominated the Italian operatic stage. But Pacini's operas were "rather superficial", a fact which, later, he candidly admitted in his Memoirs. For some years he held the post of…
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Other Operas by Giovanni Pacini
- La schiava in Bagdad (1820)
- Gli arabi nelle Gallie (1822)
- Alessandro nelle Indie (1824)
- L'ultimo giorno di Pompei (1825)
- Carlo di Borgogna (1835)