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''Zoraida di Granata'' (also ''Zoraide di Granata'' or ''Zoraïda di Granata'') is a ''melodramma eroico'' (''opera seria'' or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared Bartolomeo Merelli (about whose tardiness the composer complained), based on the French play, ''Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise'' by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1791), and on a libretto by Luigi Romanelli to an opera by Nicolini called ''Abenamet e Zoraide''. When Donizetti arrived in Rome, carrying a letter of introduction from his teacher and mentor Johann Simon Mayr to poet and librettist Jacopo Ferretti, he secured his help in revising Merelli's text.〔Allit 1991, pp. 26–27〕 Although it was Donizetti's first theatrical success "and the opera in which he began to adopt 'Rossinian' techniques",〔Ashbrook and Hibberd 2001, p. 226〕 the original 1822 version of this violent love story was never given a complete performance because Amerigo Sbigoli, the tenor originally cast in the role of Abenamet, died shortly before the first night, with no replacement available. Donizetti quickly adapted this role for contralto, though omitting three numbers in the process. The first performance took place at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, on 28 January 1822 and it and its composer received great acclaim in the weekly ''Notizie del giorno'': :"A new and very happy hope is rising for the Italian musical theatre. The young Maestro Gaetano Donizetti...has launched himself strongly in his truly serious opera, ''Zoraida''. Unanimous, sincere, universal was the applause he justly collected from the capacity audience...".〔Osborne 1994, p. 146〕 The opera was presented in a revised edition at the same theatre on 7 January 1824, and given a revival in Lisbon in 1825.〔 == Roles == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zoraida di Granata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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