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Andrea Leone Tottola (died 15 September 1831) was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini . [1] It is not known when or where he was born. He became the official poet to the royal theatres in Naples and agent for the impresario Domenico Barbaia, and started writing librettos in 1802.
Andrea Leone Tottola. Andrea Leone Tottola ( Napoli, seconda metà del XVIII secolo – Napoli, 15 settembre 1831) è stato un librettista italiano . Figlio dell'avvocato Francesco Leone Tottola e della prima moglie Emanuela Canò. Ha lavorato, tra gli altri, per Gioachino Rossini ( Mosè in Egitto ), Gaetano Donizetti e Giovanni Pacini .
Andrea Leone Tottola was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.
L'ultimo giorno di Pompei ("The last day of Pompeii ") is an opera ( dramma per musica) in two acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. It premiered to great success at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 19 November 1825 followed by productions in the major opera houses of Italy, Austria, France, and Portugal.
- 19 November 1825, Teatro San Carlo, Naples
16 February 1822. ( 1822-02-16) Teatro di San Carlo, Naples. Zelmira ( Italian pronunciation: [dzelˈmiːra]) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas. Stendhal called its music Teutonic, comparing it ...
- Italian
- Andrea Leone Tottola
- Zelmire, by de Belloy
- 16 February 1822, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
La donna del lago ( English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) [1] based on the French translation [2] of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the ...
La zingara ( The Gypsy Girl) is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after La petite bohémienne ( The Little Gypsy) by Louis-Charles Caigniez, which was itself derived from a work of August von Kotzebue . It was Donizetti's first opera written for Naples, and the first performance of ...
