Giulietta e Romeo (Zingarelli)

Opera by Antonio Zingarelli

Giulietta e Romeo is a dramma per musica by composer Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli with an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa after the 1530 novella of the same name by Luigi Da Porto and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The opera premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 30 January 1796.

Giulietta e Romeo was composed by Zingarelli in only eight days and it is considered by many scholars to be his best work. The opera remained a part of the Italian repertory well into the nineteenth century and the role of Romeo was a favourite vehicle for Maria Malibran until c. 1830.^[1]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 30 January 1796^[2] Conductor: Luigi De Baillou
Everardo Capellio	tenor	Adamo Bianchi
Giulietta	mezzo-soprano/contralto	Giuseppina Grassini
Romeo Montecchio	soprano castrato	Girolamo Crescentini
Teobaldo	tenor	Gaetano De Paoli
Gilberto	soprano castrato	Angelo Monanni "Manzoletti"
Matilde	soprano	Carolina Dinand
Members of the Capellio and Montecchio families

References

^ Original libretto for Manuel García family's American tour: Romeo and Giulietta; A Serious Opera. In Three Acts. As Performed at the New-York Theatre, New York, E. M. Murden (for the New-York Theatre), 1826; libretto: Romeo e Giulietta, London, Mallet, date not reported (cited at ItalianOpera.org). In both librettos Malibran appears as Romeo. Cf. also: (in Italian) I teatri – Giornale drammatico musicale e coreografico, Milan, Ferrario, 1828, Volume 2, Part. 1, p. 218
^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Giulietta e Romeo, 30 January 1796". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).

External links

Giulietta e Romeo (Zingarelli): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Online Italian libretto

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Characters

Sources

The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
Pyramus and Thisbe
Palace of Pleasure
Troilus and Criseyde
Ephesiaca

Ballets

Romeo and Juliet (1938, Prokofiev)
Romeo and Juliet (1962, Cranko)
Romeo and Juliet (1965, MacMillan)
Romeo and Juliet (1977, Nureyev)
Romeo and Juliet (1965, Lavery)
Radio and Juliet (2005)
Romeo + Juliet (2007, Martins)
Romeo and Juliet (2008, Pastor)

Operas

Romeo und Julie (1776, Benda)
Giulietta e Romeo (1796, Zingarelli)
Giulietta e Romeo (1825, Vaccai)
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830, Bellini)
Gloria (1874, Cilea)
Roméo et Juliette (1867, Gounod)
A Village Romeo and Juliet (1907, Delius)
Romeo und Julia (1940, Sutermeister)
Romeo und Julia (1943, Blacher)

Musicals

The Belle of Mayfair (1906)
West Side Story (1957)
Once on This Island (1990)
Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour (2001)
Giulietta e Romeo (2007)
& Juliet (2019)

Classical

Beethoven's String Quartet No. 1 (c. 1800)
Roméo et Juliette (1839, Berlioz)
Romeo and Juliet (1870, Tchaikovsky)

On screen

Films	1900 1908 1916 Metro 1916 Fox 1936 1940 1953 1954 1955 1964 1967 (TV) 1968 1978 (TV) 1992 (TV) 1996 2006 2013
TV series	Ronny & Julia (2000) Skin (2003) Romeo × Juliet (2007) Romeo y Julieta (2007) Harina de otro costal (2010) Star-Crossed (2014) Romil & Jugal (2017) Still Star-Crossed (2017)