Salvadore Cammarano

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Salvadore Cammarano

Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born

librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti
.

For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for

Ines de Castro
.

For

Verdi he wrote Alzira (1845), La battaglia di Legnano (1849) and Luisa Miller (1849), but after he died in July 1852, Verdi worked with Leone Emanuele Bardare to complete the libretto for Il trovatore (1853).[1] Cammarano also started work on libretto for a proposed adaptation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear, named Re Lear
, but he died before completing it; a detailed scenario survives.

His father, Giuseppe, was a painter and set-designer. His son, Michele, was also a painter.

Libretti by Cammarano

References

Notes

  1. ^ Budden, Vol. 2, p.65

Sources

  • Black, John (1982), Donizetti's Operas in Naples, 1822 to 1848, London: Donizetti Society, 1982
  • Black, John (1984), The Italian Romantic Libretto: A Study of Salvadore Cammarano, Edinburgh University Press, 1984
  • (paperback).
  • Warrack, John and Ewan West, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1992

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