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La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) based on The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic highlands.
Scott's basic story has been noted as coming from "the hint of an incident stemming from the frequent custom of James V, the King of Scotland, of walking through the kingdom in disguise".
Scott's basic story has been noted as coming from "the hint of an incident stemming from the frequent custom of James V, the King of Scotland, of walking through the kingdom in disguise".
It was the first of the Italian operas to be based on Scott's romantic works, and it was deeply influential in the development of Italian romantic opera to the extent that by 1840 (barely 20 years after this opera), there were 25 Italian operas based on Scott's works, the most famous being Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor of 1835.
Written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, this was the seventh of nine operas which Rossini wrote for that house between 1815 and 1822.
A successful premiere on 24 October 1819 led to many performances throughout major European venues until about 1860, after which the opera disappeared until 1958.
In modern times, performances have been given fairly frequently.
A successful premiere on 24 October 1819 led to many performances throughout major European venues until about 1860, after which the opera disappeared until 1958.
In modern times, performances have been given fairly frequently.
After being obliged to leave Pesaro hurriedly in May 1819 (it turned out to be his last visit there), Rossini returned to Naples in early in June with no projects in the offing, except to become involved with overseeing a new production of his La gazza ladra there.
Also, a commission from Milan's La Scala for an opera, which would become Bianca e Falliero, had been offered and was planned for December of that year.
Suddenly, the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini withdrew from a commitment to write two operas for the Naples house that season, thus leaving a huge gap.
Rossini was quickly asked to write an opera for a September premiere; rather than use an existing libretto, the house insisted upon a wholly new opera and he accepted the challenge.
Also, a commission from Milan's La Scala for an opera, which would become Bianca e Falliero, had been offered and was planned for December of that year.
Suddenly, the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini withdrew from a commitment to write two operas for the Naples house that season, thus leaving a huge gap.
Rossini was quickly asked to write an opera for a September premiere; rather than use an existing libretto, the house insisted upon a wholly new opera and he accepted the challenge.
It seems Rossini was initially attracted to Scott's poem when, in musicologist Philip Gossett's opinion, he was introduced to it in translation by Désiré-Alexandre Batton, a Prix de Rome winner then in Italy.
Rossini immediately called upon the Naples-based librettist Andrea Leone Tottola (who is described as "a comparative mediocrity when set against the likes of a Felice Romani)".
Later, the librettist claimed the topic for "this difficult task" had been chosen by the Naples impresario.
Rossini immediately called upon the Naples-based librettist Andrea Leone Tottola (who is described as "a comparative mediocrity when set against the likes of a Felice Romani)".
Later, the librettist claimed the topic for "this difficult task" had been chosen by the Naples impresario.
As he worked on the libretto, Tottola was also intrigued by the epic Celtic tales of Ossian published in 1760 by James Macpherson, who claimed to have found poems written by an ancient bard.
The published translations acquired international popularity and set off a craze for idealising and romanticizing the Scottish Highlands.
Napoleon read the Ossian poems, Goethe included them in The Sorrows of Young Werther ("Ah non mi ridestar"), and Schubert and Mendelssohn both composed music to them.
Walter Scott was also greatly influenced by them -- but what are the actual specific references to OSSIAN in "La donna del lago"?
The published translations acquired international popularity and set off a craze for idealising and romanticizing the Scottish Highlands.
Napoleon read the Ossian poems, Goethe included them in The Sorrows of Young Werther ("Ah non mi ridestar"), and Schubert and Mendelssohn both composed music to them.
Walter Scott was also greatly influenced by them -- but what are the actual specific references to OSSIAN in "La donna del lago"?
Initially, Tottola was well aware of the difficulties which he faced in reducing Scott's epic poem, with its detailed descriptions of the Scottish landscape and culture as well as its many characters.
In his preface, the librettist summed it up.
It is, in fact, no easy task to simplify the many beauties and many moments of interest of a narrative poem in order to arrive at the regular conduct of a drama and to observe the strict laws of the stage.
It therefore became unavoidable that he should make some arbitrary changes in the original.
But together, composer and librettist, reflecting the poetic meter of the Ossian tales, strove to interweave a sense of these very rhythms into the score and libretto.In his preface, the librettist summed it up.
It is, in fact, no easy task to simplify the many beauties and many moments of interest of a narrative poem in order to arrive at the regular conduct of a drama and to observe the strict laws of the stage.
It therefore became unavoidable that he should make some arbitrary changes in the original.
It is astonishing that Rossini and Tottola achieved in so short a time a complex and sophisticated theatrical structure, an unusually rich vein of dramatically viable melody, exquisite orchestrations, and a striking use of the kind of off-stage effects Rossini had been experimenting with in the royal pageants of Ricciardo e Zoraide.
Osborne also notes the way in which the source materials have been interwoven, giving the sense of a music drama that has in some measure been 'through-composed'.
Gossett is less enthusiastic, noting that it is almost impossible for Italian poetry to capture the quality of Scott's characteristic verse, but he does agree that the spirit of the poem is there.
With the original September deadline missed, the new opera was presented in October and was an enormous success, although it was not without some early disruptions from the audience.
The opera received its premiere on 24 October 1819, with a debut cast of seasoned singers who regularly worked together, including Isabella Colbran as Elena, Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni as Malcolm and Giovanni David as King James.
Initial reactions were mixed.
A contemporary account of the evening's events reveals that, in the absence of members of the royal court, there were disruptions.
A. Azevedo, in his 1864 book on the composer, notes that the public found itself free of all restraint.
The audience whistled and booed, and challenged both artists and composer throughout almost the entire evening.
However, after Colbran's rondo finale, the public was very enthusiastic and called her onto the stage many times, as they did Rossini (who had already left for Milan).
La donna remained in the San Carlo's repertoire for 12 years, up to the 1834/35 season.
It was performed in London in February 1823 and was staged for 15 seasons until 1851, while it had its American debut in New Orleans in June 1829 followed by New York in 1833.
Many major cities in Italy, several in Spain, as well as St. Petersburg and many South American houses saw productions up to 1860, when there was a performance in Trieste.
After that it disappeared.
Although not staged at the Opéra, La donna was seen in Paris for 13 seasons between 1824 and 1854.
While Rossini was living in Paris, he was approached by the director of the Opéra, Léon Pillet, in 1846, with a request to write a new work.
Rossini declined, because the company had never performed La donna del lago.
Pillet therefore began collaborating with the composer Louis Niedermeyer and librettist Gustave Vaëz to change the story of La donna del lago to a different time and incorporate elements from another Scott work; eventually, with Rossini's blessing, they also added music from Zelmira and Armida.
This "pasticcio", Robert Bruce, was given on 30 December 1846 and “throughout the winter, to appreciative audiences".
20th century and beyond
La donna del lago went unperformed for almost a century until 1958, when a revival took place in Florence, where it was also recorded in performance at the Teatro della Pergola during the Maggio Musicale on 9 May.
Ten years later, it was presented at the 1969 Camden Festival in London, with Kiri Te Kanawa in the lead role.
In 1981, after an absence from America of almost 150 years, a production was mounted by the Houston Grand Opera, starring Frederica von Stade, Marilyn Horne, and Rockwell Blake, and conducted by Claudio Scimone.
The same production and cast were later presented at Covent Garden.
In 1983, the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro presented the work with Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terrani and Samuel Ramey.
A variety of European and American companies - about 25 in all - performed the opera from the 1960s into the early 2000s, and recordings of many of these exist, including a concert performance in the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, on 2 March 1986.
1990 saw Cecilia Gasdia and Rockwell Blake in a performance in the Teatro Regio di Parma in January 1990.
In 1992, to mark the bicentenary of Rossini's birth, La Scala mounted its first production of the opera in 150 years, with a cast that included bel canto experts June Anderson, Rockwell Blake, and Chris Merritt, directed by Werner Herzog and conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Anna Caterina Antonacci starred in a concert performance in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, on 28 March 1992.
Florez sang the role of Uberto in a performance in the Palafestival, Pesaro in August 2001, repeating that role in 2002 (with Malcolm sung by Daniela Barcellona) at the Opéra Berlioz-Le Corume on 23 July with the orchestra of the Rome Opera.
Both Florez and Barcellona appeared in the Kleines Festspielhaus in Salzburg in August, with Ruth Ann Swenson as Elena and Bruce Fowler (tenor) as Rodrigo.
2003 saw a concert performance under Eve Queler given by the Opera Orchestra of New York on 19 May.
Elena was sung by Ruth Ann Swenson, Malcolm by Stephanie Blythe and Rodrigo by Bruce Fowler (tenor).
A concert performance was also given as part of the Edinburgh Festival at Usher Hall, on 18 August 2006.
The Paris Opera staged its first production of the work in June 2010 at the Palais Garnier with a cast headed by Rossini specialists Joyce DiDonato as Elena and Florez as King James.
The production by Luís Pasqual was conducted by Roberto Abbado.
This production traveled from Paris to La Scala in October 2011.
The opera, featuring some of the Paris cast, was given by The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in the Spring of 2013.
The production, by John Fulljames, was conducted by Michele Mariotti.
A new production was presented on 13 July 2013 by The Santa Fe Opera as part of its festival season, also starring Joyce DiDonato, with Lawrence Brownlee as Uberto/The King, Marianna Pizzolato as Malcolm, René Barbera as Rodrigo and Wayne Tigges as Douglas.
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 24 October 1819 (Conductor: Gioachino Rossini) |
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| Elena, the Lady of the Lake | soprano | Isabella Colbran |
| Malcolm Groeme | contralto | Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni |
| Uberto, alias of Giacomo (King James V of Scotland) | tenor | Giovanni David |
| Douglas d'Angus, father of Elena and former tutor to King James | bass | Michele Benedetti |
| Rodrigo, chief of the Highlanders | tenor | Andrea Nozzari |
| Serano, Douglas's retainer | tenor | Gaetano Chizzola |
| Albina, Elena's confidante | mezzo-soprano | Maria Manzi |
| Bertram | bass | Massimo Orlandini |
| Shepherds, hunters, kings' men, highlanders, courtiers - chorus | ||
The instrumentation is:
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Synopsis
Act 1
Scene 1: The shores of Loch KatrineShepherds are watching flocks at dawn on the shore and men in the nearby forests are hunting (Chorus: "Del dì la messaggiera").
Elena, the daughter of Duglas d'Angus, crosses the lake and sings of her longing for her true love, Malcolm Graeme (Cavatina: Oh mattutini albori / "Love has preceded you, to awake me again from my slumbers").
At the edge of the lake Katrine, Elena hears the sound of horns and vainly hopes that Malcolm Graeme will be amongst the hunters.
However, GIACOMO V - who has disguised himself as "cavalier di Snowdown, Uberto" in the hope of meeting the beautiful Elena - approaches from a distance, claiming to be a lost hunter.
Elena offers aid and Giacomo accepts, and the two cross the lake towards Elena's home (Duettino: Scendi nel piccol legno / "Get into my little boat").
As they sail off, the men in his entourage arrive, searching for the disguised King (Chorus: Uberto! Ah! dove t'ascondi? / "Oberto, where are you hiding?").
Frustrated, they agree to widen the search and pray for guidance in finding their leader.
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Scene 2: Elena's home.
Arriving at her home, Elena explains her simple life.
But GIACOMO V sees insignias of his ancestors and learns that Elena's father is Douglas, his tutor, who has since turned against him.
Elena's friends arrive and sing of her betrothal by her father to Rodrigo, chief of a Scots tribe opposed to GIACOMO V - the Highlanders.
GIACOMO V becomes jealous.
However, he suspects that Elena is not in love with Rodrigo (Duet: Le mie barbare vicende / "What good will it do to hear about my cruel fortunes?").
Directly, he asks if there is someone she loves, and learns this was only a brief episode in her past.
Encouraged, he prepares to leave Elena's house (Duet: Cielo! in qual estasi! / "Heavens, I feel myself transported in ecstasy"), and he and Elena expresses similar emotions.
All leave as Elena goes inside.
Malcolm Graeme arrives, having decided to join Rodrigo, Douglas, and the Highlanders.
Alone, he recalls fond memories of Elena: (Aria: Elena! oh tu, che chiamo!, Deh vola a me un istante / "Elena! you whom I call!, Ah!, fly back to me for a moment, come back to me and say I love you").
Then Malcolm swears he will take her away from the strongest man or die in the attempt.
Unseen, Malcolm then watches Elena and her father Duglas d'Angus discussing her upcoming marriage to Rodrigo.
She is reluctant, but Douglas orders her to obey his command: (Aria: Taci, lo voglio, e basti / "Be quiet! It is my wish...Show me that you're a daughter worthy of her father").
As he leaves, trumpets announce Rodrigo.
Douglas orders Elena to follow him.
Malcolm, who has overheard the conversation, approaches Elena and they pledge their undying devotion to each other (Duettino: Vivere io non saprò/ potrò, mio ben, senza di te / (Elena, then Malcolm): "Beloved, I shall not be able to live, my love, without you").
Together they leave.
Scene 3
The Highland warriors urge one another to fight (Chorus: Qual rapido torrente / "Like a swift-flowing stream, surging over obstacles in its way") and welcome Rodrigo.
He pledges to lead them to victory but, aside, expresses anxiety to see his future bride. (Cavatina: Eccomi a voi, miei prodi / "I come to you my brave honor of the native soil").
Rodrigo's soldiers assure him Rodrigo will win the hand of the woman he loves, as well as military victory.
Douglas d'Angus enters and he and Rodrigo greet one another, the latter fervently expressing his desire to see Elena.
(Rodrigo and Chorus: Ma dov'è colei / "But where is Elena, who kindles such a sweet flame in my breast").
Acclaimed by the assembled crowd for her beauty, Elena enters.
Rodrigo approaches, declaring his love: (Aria: Quanto a quest'alma amante / "My loving soul finds the sweetness of this moment").
Concerned that Elena does not appear to respond, Douglas assures Rodrigo that she is restrained by modesty.
Father, daughter and suitor each express their hopes, concerns and fears: (Trio: Di opposti affetti un vortice / "A whirlwind of contrary emotions, Swirls about me").
Malcolm Graeme and his men arrive to join the Highlanders, demanding to be put to the test.
Elena tries to hide her emotions, but Douglas immediately understands where Elena's heart lies.
At the same time, Rodrigo offers friendship to Malcolm and introduces Elena as his bride-to-be.
But he, too, perceives a connection between Malcolm and Elena.
In a quartet accompanied by the chorus of soldiers and women, each expresses his or her conflicting emotions: (Rodrigo: Crudele sospetto, Che me agiti il petto / "Cruel suspicion That sets me shuddering"; then Elena and Malcolm together: "Ah my affection - keep yourself hidden"; then Douglas: "Ah! Anger and resentment Tear my heart apart"; finally Albina and chorus: "Cruel suspicion twists Like a snake").
Abruptly, Serano enters to warn of an attack by the GIACOMO V's forces.
Rodrigo, Malcolm and the Highland warriors prepare to depart for battle: (Su... amici! guerrieri! / "Go on, friends and warriors, Go on, let's march, let's fight").
All leave for battle.
Act 2
Scene 1: A thick wood with a caveIn the woods, James has come to find Elena, hoping to save her from the coming battles (Cavatina: Oh fiamma soave / "Oh sweet flame That sets my breast on fire! Show compassion To a faithful lover").
Meanwhile, Elena asks Serano to find her father, whom she expects to see before he goes off to fight.
Serano leaves.
James then approaches Elena and declares his love, but she tells him she loves Malcolm: (Duet, leading to a trio: Elena and Uberto: Alla ragion deh rieda / "Ah! may your agitated and overburdended soul Return to reason's control").
Nevertheless, Uberto gives Elena a ring he says GIACOMO gave him, and emphasizes that it will see her through any danger.
GIACOMO prepares to leave, but Rodrigo steps forward, having overheard their exchange: (Duet: Qual pena in me già desta / "What distress in my fatal misfortune"".
This becomes a trio with Malcolm's: Misere mie pupille! / "O my wretched eyes!".) [24]
Overwhelmed with rage and jealousy, Rodrigo orders his men to reveal themselves and kill this stranger.
Elena pleads with Rodrigo's men, and Rodrigo decides to duel with GIACOMO himself.
The two exit.
Elena, trying in vain to calm them, follows.
Scene 2: The interior of the cave
Malcolm enters, looking for Elena, but finds only Albina.
Serano joins them, explaining that Elena has gone in search of her father, Douglas, who is on a peace mission to the King's palace.
Despondent at losing Elena, Malcolm seeks his own death: (Aria: Ah! si pera: ormai la morte! / "Ah! Let me perish; death now Would be a relief for my ills").
However, he is confronted by the arriving clansmen who announce that Rodrigo has been slain and the Highlanders face certain defeat.
Malcolm leaves for the palace, determined to rescue Elena even if it means his life.
Scene 3: A room in the King's palace
Douglas begs his former student James for forgiveness, not for himself but for his daughter and those who helped him on the field of battle.
The King refuses, and orders him imprisoned.
As Douglas is led away, the King is saddened by having to act so severely.
Meanwhile, Elena has gained entry to the palace by showing her ring from "Uberto", and hopes to save her father, Malcolm and Rodrigo (of whose death she is unaware).
Suddenly, in the next room, she hears the voice of "Uberto" expressing love for her: (Aria: Aurora! ah sorgerai / "Dawn! Ah! will you always Arise inauspiciously for me? Oh God! Why show me Elena's fair eyes?").
When "Uberto" comes in, Elena is thrilled, certain he will help her gain an interview with the King.
Scene 4: The King's Throne Room
GIACOMO and ELENA enter the throne room as members of the court join them: (Chorus: Imponga il Re / "Let the King give us his orders").
Elena, puzzled by the courtiers' behaviour towards "Uberto", suddenly she realises that Uberto and King James are one.
James, softened by his affection for Elena, decides to forgive her father, Douglas.
But he makes a show of severity by condemning Malcolm.
Finally, he relents and brings the couple together.
In her rondo finale, Elena rejoices to have saved both her father and her true love, while everyone else rejoices that peace has been restored: (Rondo: Tanti affetti in tal momento! / "So many emotions at such moment / Come clamouring about my heart / That I cannot explain to you / My immense happiness")
In describing the conclusion of the first act in musical terms, Philip Gossett makes us aware that, in the stretta, Rossini brings all the tunes together contrapuntally, with full orchestra, three separate choruses, soloists, opera, trumpets, harp, for what is certainly the most exhilarating moment in all his operas.
Whether it or not it is true to Scott, it is clearly motivated by an intense desire to capture the spirit of Scott, and this desire draws Rossini down compositional paths that he has never taken before.
It is significant that Naples, for whose Teatro San Carlo the opera was written, was the scene of many innovations in the opera seria form.
Given its sophisticated opera-going audience the composer could experiment with musical and dramatic forms in ways that would have met with incomprehension elsewhere.
Preceding as it did Maometto II and Zelmira, in its variety of moods, of forms, of vocal styles, of orchestration, La Donna del Lago is one of the most engaging operas Rossini ever wrote and is Rossini's most tuneful opera.
In summing up the musical and creative significance of this opera in Rossini's overall career, Gossett suggests that while Malcolm's two arias and Elena's final "tanti affetti" are "bel canto" at its finest, in this opera Rossini, embraced all musical techniques known to him, pushed into dramatic and structural territory largely uncharted in Italian opera, explored the riches of the orchestra, redefined the nature of the chorus, created, in short, a tradition to which later composers who still knew these works could only look back in awe.
Charles Osborne notes that the music of Atto II "remains on a high level" (when compared to the structural innovations of Atto I) but several aspects draw his attention.
These include Uberto's "andante cavatina" which begins with Elena: Oh fiamma soave ("Oh sweet flame / That sees my breast on fire!), followed by the duet Alla ragion, deh rieda ("Ah! may your agitated and overburded soul") which then leads into a cabaletta trio with Rodrigo "the two tenors vying with each other in high-flying vocal agility", with the "winner" being Uberto with his high D.
Osborne concludes by noting, as have other scholars, that this opera anticipates how the composer moved towards Guillaume Tell.
In his introductory essay in the booklet accompanying the Opera Rara recording, Jeremy Commons takes many of the above comments one step further by drawing attention to the way in which the composer takes the melody of Elena's opening cavatina (Oh mattutini albori! / "Oh rays of morning"), brings it back and into the duet with Uberto (Elena: Scendi nel piccolo legno / "Step down into my little craft"), echoes it in the orchestra when the couple arrive at the island, and then re-introduces it right at the end of act 2 when we hear Uberto singing it off-stage in the form of a canzoncina :(Aurora! ah sorgerai / "Dawn! Ah! Will you always / Arise inauspiciously for me?").
Commons explains that this linking "is evidence that Rossini was taking the first step towards a concept of an opera, not as a series of disparate items, but as an organized whole in which the parts refer back and forth to each other, adding extra resonances each time that material returns.[27]
| Year | Cast: Elena, Malcolm, Uberto (Giacomo), Rodrigo di Dhu | Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra | Label:[20] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Montserrat Caballé, Júlia Hamari, Franco Bonisolli, Pietro Bottazzo | Piero Bellugi, Orchestra and Chorus of RAI Torino (Recording of a broadcast performance, 20 April) | Audio CD: Opera d'Oro Cat: OPD 1206 |
| 1981 | Frederica Von Stade, Marilyn Horne, Rockwell Blake, Dano Raffanti | Claudio Scimone, Houston Symphony Orchestra and Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Recording of a performance at the Houston Grand Opera, 18 October) | Audio CD: Celestial Audio Cat: CA 417 |
| 1983 | Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terrani, Dalmacio Gonzales, Dano Raffanti | Maurizio Pollini, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Prague Philharmonic Choir | Audio CD: CBS "Masterworks", Cat: CD 39311; Fonit Cetra, Cat: CDC 31 |
| 1992 | June Anderson, Martine Dupuy, Rockwell Blake, Chris Merritt, | Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus (Recorded at performances at La Scala, June) | Audio CD: Philips Cat: 473 307-2; DVD: Opus Arte, Cat: OALS 3009D |
| 2006 | Carmen Giannattasio, Patricia Bardon, Kenneth Tarver, Gregory Kunde | Maurizio Benini, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus (Recording of a concert performance in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 18 August) | Audio CD: Opera Rara, Cat: ORC 34 |
References[edit]
Notes- Jump up ^ Osborne, Charles 1994, p. 95
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Osborne, Charles 1994, p. 94
- Jump up ^ The legend quoted in Mays 2013, p. 9
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gossett and Brauner (2001), in Holden (Ed.), p. 785
- ^ Jump up to: a b Commons 2007, pp. 9 - 12
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Osborne, Richard 2007, pp. 61 - 62
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gossett 1983, p. 12
- Jump up ^ Pistone (1995), p. 3
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Mays 2013, pp. 17 - 18
- Jump up ^ Morère 2004, pp. 75-6.
- Jump up ^ Ferguson 1998, p. 227.
- Jump up ^ Tottola's preface to the libretto quoted in Commons, p. 29
- Jump up ^ Osborne, Richard (2007), p. 280
- Jump up ^ A letter from Stendhal to his friend De Mareste, quoted in Osborne, R. 2007, p. 62
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Warrack & West, p. ?
- Jump up ^ A. Azevedo in G. Rossini: Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres (Paris, 1864), quoted in Commons 2007, pp. 18 - 20
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Kaufman 2007, p. 44- 51
- Jump up ^ Osborne, R. 2007, pp. 136 - 137. Osborne gives two date for the premiere, December 23 (p. 137) and December 30 (p. 357). Weinstock 1968, p. 238, explains that the premiere was scheduled for December 23, the date on the printed libretto, but was postponed to December 30 because the lead mezzo-soprano, Rosine Stoltz, was ill. See also Le Ménestrel (vol. 14, no, 4 (27 December 1846).
- Donal Henahan, "Opera: Houston Digs up Rossini Donna del Lago", The New York Times, 17 October 1981
- ^ Recordings of La donna del lago on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- Christian Peter, "La Donna del Lago" on forumopera.com 14 June 2010] (in French)
- Rupert Christiansen, "La Donna del Lago, Royal Opera, Royal Opera House, review", The Telegraph (London), 18 May 2013
- James Keller, "Review: Joyce DiDonato dazzles in La donna del lago, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013
- Osborne, R. (2007), p. 283: he regards this trio as "the central achievement of act 2"
- ^ Gossett (1983), p. 13 - 15
- Osborne, Charles (1994), pp.96-97
- Commons (2007), pp. 40 - 41
Osborne, Richard (2007), Rossini: His Life and Works Oxford University Press.
- List of performances of La donna del lago on Operabase.
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