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'''Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio''' is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on a libretto by Antonio Piazza. It was Verdi's first opera. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, November 17 1839. The British premiere did not take place until February 1982, at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.

Contents

Roles

Noted arias

Notes

External links

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast ,November 17, 1839[1] (Conductor: - )
Cuniza, ''sister of Ezzelino da Romano''	mezzo-soprano	Mary Shaw
Imelda, ''her confident''	mezzo-soprano	Marietta Sacchi
Riccardo, ''count of Salinguerra''	tenor	Lorenzo Salvi
Oberto, ''count of San Bonifacio''	bass	Ignazio Marini
Leonora, ''his daughter''	soprano	Antonietta Ranieri-Marini
''Lords, ladies, vassals''

Noted arias

★ "Son fra voi! Già sorto è il giorno...Già parmi udire il fremito" - Riccardo in Act I, Scene I

★ "Sotto il paterno tetto...Oh potessi nel mio core" - Leonora in Act I, Scene I

★ "L'orror del tradimento...M tu superbo giovane" - Oberto in Act I, Scene II

★ "Parmi che al fin quest' anima...Da tanta gioia assorta" - Cuniza in Act I, Scene II

★ "Oh, chi torna l'ardente pensiero?...Più che i vezzi e lo splendore" - Cuniza in Act II, Scene I

★ "Ciel che feci?" - Riccardo in Act II, Scene II

Notes

1. List of singers taken from Budden, Julian: ''The Operas of Verdi'' (Cassell), vol 1, p. 44.

External links

★ Libretto

★ Aria database