Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro
Matilde di Shabran (full title: Matilde di Shabran, o sia Bellezza e Cuor di ferro; English: Matilde of Shabran, or Beauty and Ironheart) is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after François-Benoît Hoffman’s libretto for Méhul’s Euphrosine (1790, Paris) and J. M. Boutet de Monvel's play Mathilde. The opera was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Apollo, 24 February 1821
conducted by the violinist Niccolo Paganini. The premiere was followed by a street brawl "between Rossini's admirers and his detractors."
Movements
- Matilde di Shabran: “Piange il mio ciglio”
- Overture
- Atto I
Atto II
- Matilde di Shaban: Ami alfine... Tacea la tromba altera
- Matilde di Shabran: Ah, perché, perché la morte
- Matilde di Shabran: Sazia tu fossi alfine