Composer: João Cordeiro da Silva
Librettist: Gaetano Martinelli
Serio-comic drama in 2 acts
Date: 1789
Language: Italian
Small-scale
Lindane: soprano
Dalmiro: mezzo-soprano
Giacinta: soprano
Baronesa Lucrezia: mezzo-soprano
Monsieur Ragout: tenor
Marquês Pancottone: baritone
Don Fabrizio: baritone
In Baghdad, the young Lindane refuses to marry Don Fabrizio and is placed in the care of two women who wish her ill, Baroness Lucrezia and Giacinta. The true object of her passion is Dalmiro, a noble lord, the son of the man responsible for her father’s death.
Amidst dangers, misunderstandings and traps — including the threat of a lion in the forest — Lindane and Dalmiro face intrigues, jealousies and challenges until, finally, love triumphs and all wrongs committed are forgiven.
Orchestra
Score: Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional da Ajuda
Lindane e Dalmiro by João Cordeiro da Silva, with a libretto by the poet Gaetano Martinelli, premiered in 1789 at the Royal Theatre of Ajuda, on the occasion of the birthday of Queen Maria I, performed by the singers of the Royal Chapel — among them the castrati Carlo Reina, Giovanni Gelati and Giuseppe Marrochini — with sets and theatrical machinery by Giacomo Azzolini and Petronio Mazzoni. The opera received its modern premiere in May 2016 in a production presented in the Salão Nobre of the Teatro de São Carlos, under the musical direction of João Paulo Santos and staging by Luca Aprea.1
Date: 1789
Venue: Royal Theatre of Ajuda Palace, Lisbon
Cast: Carlo Reyna, Giovanni Gelati, Giuseppe Marrochini, Innocenzo Schettini, Luca Manna, Filippo Cappellani and Antonio Bartolini
