I cavalieri di Ekebù is an opera composed by Riccardo Zandonai to an Italian libretto by Arturo Rossato [it]. The opera is based on Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf's 1891 debut novel Gösta Berlings Saga. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 7 March 1925. The opera was staged in Nuremberg in 1929, and the Vereingigten Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach presented a production by Tony Palmer in 1987.[1]

I Cavalieri di Ekebù
Opera by Riccardo Zandonai
Set design for act 1 in the premiere
LibrettistArturo Rossato
LanguageItalian
Based onSelma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings Saga
Premiere
7 March 1925 (1925-03-07)
La Scala Milan

Roles

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Cast Voice type Premiere, 7 March 1925
Conductor: – Arturo Toscanini)
Giosta Berling tenor Franco Lo Giudice
The commander mezzo-soprano Elvira Mari-Casazza
Anna soprano Maria Luisa Fanelli
Anna's mother mezzo-soprano Lina Lanza
Sintram bass Fernando Autori
Cristiano baritone Benvenuto Franci
Fuchs baritone Pariso Votto
Everardo baritone Aristide Baracchi
Wemburgo baritone Chase Baromeo
Samzelius bass Carlo Walter
Berencreuz bass Amleto Galli
Kristoffer bass Giuseppe Menni
Liecrona tenor Alfredo Tedeschi
Rutger tenor Emilio Venturini
Kenvellere tenor Giovanni Genzardi
Røster tenor Palmiro Domenichetti
Julius tenor Giuseppe Nessi
Hostess mezzo-soprano Ida Mannarini
A girl soprano Anita Apolloni

References

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  1. ^ Luys, Thomas. West Germany - Zandonai rediscovered. Opera, October 1987, p1192-93.

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