Maometto (Winter)

Maometto is an opera by Peter von Winter to a libretto by Felice Romani premièred in 1817 at La Scala, Milan.[1][2] Romani's libretto is unusual in that it depicts Muhammad, the founder of Islam, following the 1736 play Mahomet by Voltaire, and not Mehmed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan of the fifteenth century known from Rossini's Maometto II.[3]

Scene from Maometto (Act 2, scene 7). Set design by Alessandro Sanquirico for the 1826 production at La Scala.

Recording
  • Maometto Maometto, Sebastian Na (tenor); Zopiro sheriff of Mecca Antonio de Gobbi (bass); Omar Maometto's Lieutenant, Luca Salsi (baritone); Fanor senator of Mecca Cesare Ruta (tenor), Seide Maometto's slave Gloria Montanari (mezzo), Palmira (another slave) Maria Luigia Borsi (soprano). Czech Philharmonic Choir. Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno conducted Gabriele Bellini Marco Polo.[4][5][6]

References
  1. Larry Wolff The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions - 2016 0804799652 Linda Tyler, "Winter, Peter von," in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols., ed. Stanley Sadie, vol. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1165–66. 12. Peter von Winter, Maometto, melodramma tragico in due atti, del Sig. Felice Romani, da rappresentarsi nel Regio Teatro alla Scala, il carnevale dell'anno 1817 (Milan: Stamperia di Giacomo Pirola, 1817), 42.
  2. Gerald Abraham The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 - 019316308X - 1982 Page 458 PETER VON WINTER A more ambitious but scarcely more homogeneous method was adopted by Peter von Winter, a pupil of Vogler and a servant of the Bavarian court, whose long career embraced German, French, and Italian operas (some written for the London Haymarket) and included settings of Metastasio (Catone in Utica, 1791) at one end and Romani (Maometto II, 1817) at the other.
  3. Naxos Paolo Fabbri booklet notes English version by Keith Anderson
  4. International Record Review 2004 - Volume 5, Issue 1 - p 77 ... in Peter von Winter's Maometto, with unfortunate results. In this case, Palmira and Seide, the latter a breeches role, murder their father, Zopiro, without knowing who he is. It happens as a result of Maometto and his forces besieging Mecca, of which Zopiro is the sheriff. Zopiro refuses to yield. As it transpires, Maometto is victorious; Seide and Zopiro are killed. That is an over-simplification of events, but you will appreciate the drift. Maometto was premièred in 1817 at La Scala, Milan.
  5. Review
  6. Gramophone review

See also

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