Il Corsaro, Act II
Tragic melodrama in three acts and seven tableaux on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after The Corsair by George Byron.
First performance on 25 October 1848 at the Teatro Grande in Trieste.

Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Critical edition edited by Elizabeth Hudson, The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi

Gulnara Alessia Panza*
Eunuch, A slave Carlo Raffaelli
Seid Daniel Luis de Vicente
Corrado Galeano Salas
Giovanni Agostino Subacchi*
*former students of the Accademia Verdiana

Il Guarany, Overture
Opera-ballet, on a libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo d’Ormeville, after the novel O Guarani by José de Alencar.
First performance on 19 March 1870 at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Music ANTÔNIO CARLOS GOMES

Jérusalem, Act III Scene I
Grand Opéra in four acts on a libretto by Temistocle Solera with the French translation by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz.
First performance on 26 November 1847 at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.

Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Critical edition edited by Jürgen Selk, The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi, Milan

An Officer of the Emir Carlo Raffaelli
The Emir of Ramla Agostino Subacchi*
Hélène Alessia Panza*
Gaston Galeano Salas
The Count of Toulouse Daniel Luis de Vicente
*former students of the Accademia Verdiana

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