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6 unusual facts about Simon Mayr


Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani

Engagements followed later that year at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, where she sang the title role in the premiere of Pietro Raimondi's Eloisa Verner, and at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, where she sang Ifigenia in the premiere of Mayr's Il sagrifizio di Ifigenia, a performance which inaugurated the new theatre.

In addition to the roles she created in Rossini's operas, she also sang in the world premieres of operas by several composers who are lesser known today, including Pietro Raimondi, Simon Mayr, and Ferdinando Paër.

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly

His Leonor (1798) forms the basis for the libretto which Ludwig van Beethoven used for the opera Fidelio; it was also set by Pierre Gaveaux as Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal, by Simon Mayr as L'amor coniugale, and by Ferdinando Paer as Leonora.

Marietta Sacchi

She notably created roles in the world premieres of operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Simon Mayr, Giovanni Pacini, Luigi Ricci, and Giuseppe Verdi.

In 1823 Sacchi portrayed the role of Barsene in the world premiere of Simon Mayr's Demetrio at the Teatro Regio di Torino.

San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, Venice

For this church, the composer Simon Mayr wrote the oratorio Sisara (based on story of Sisera).


Ginevra di Scozia

Ginevra di Scozia is an opera in two acts by Simon Mayr set to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Rossi based on Antonio Salvi's Ginevra, principessa di Scozia, which in turn was adapted from Cantos 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

Teresa Belloc-Giorgi

She sang the title role in the revival of Simon Mayr's Medea in Corinto in 1823, and Isabella in the first performance of L’inganno felice in Venice in 1812.


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