Il crociato in Egitto (The Crusader in Egypt) is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at...
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Contralto (section Subtypes and roles in opera)
Naxos (Strauss) Erda, Das Rheingold, Siegfried (Wagner) Felicia, Il crociato in Egitto (Meyerbeer) Madame Flora (Baba), The Medium (Menotti) Fidès, Le...
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (section In Italy)
himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing. His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto was the first to bring him a Europe-wide...
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Aureliano in Palmira (1813) and Armando in Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto (1824). He made his London debut in 1825 in Il crociato in Egitto. The crowds...
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Grand opera (section Ballet in grand opera)
forerunner was Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre. In Il crociato, which was produced...
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Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. Also in 2007, Maniaci returned to Glimmerglass Opera to perform the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. In 2008, Maniaci...
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Maria Malibran (category Deaths by horse-riding accident in England)
turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, and Semiramide (both Arsace and the title role). She also sang in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto in Paris in September...
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performed the last operatic castrato role ever written: Armando in Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer (Venice, 1824). Soon after this they were replaced...
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Fenice in Venice, 1823–24, where she created Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. In 1826, she created Bellini's Bianca e Gernando at the San Carlo in Naples...
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(Manon) Umberto Giordano Mese mariano (Carmela) Il re (Rosalina) Giacomo Meyerbeer Il crociato in Egitto (Palmide) Robert le diable (Isabelle) Tommaso Traetta...
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