Gallery: € 75,00 Zaira pleads for the postponement of her wedding when the sultan enters; at that time, she promises to tell him why. The vizier Corasmino sees the Sultan’s decision to marry a Christian woman as an insult to Koranic law, especially at a time when their French enemies are about to descend on them; he therefore intends to prevent the wedding. The story takes place in the time of the Crusades and the opera's plot involves the heroine, Zaira, struggling between her Christian faith and her love for Orosmane, the Muslim Sultan of Jerusalem.

Settled on a hill of the Monte Tauro, Taormina dominates two grand, sweeping bays below and on the southern side, the top of Mount Etna, the european highest active volcano, often capped with snow, offering to the visitors a breathtaking, dramatic and memorable view. [4] Both productions were recorded.

Zaira does not wish to betray her love and Orosmane’s trust, but in the end she embraces her brother and decides to return to the Christian faith.

Fatima, another slave in the harem, asks Zaira how she could have forgotten France and the French warrior who swore to free her, and renounced her Christian faith: but Zaira reminds her that she has had no news of that warrior since he returned to France, and that she now loves Orosmane, who loves her in return . Except for the Florence revival of Zaira, no performances of it were given for 140 years.[1].

However, for the most part, the singers were applauded, even if the composer received little. There is celebration in the Sultan's court over the impending marriage between Sultan Orosmane and Zaira, the orphaned Christian slave girl.

Orosmane quickly agrees to release all the captives, who number around one hundred, but insists on retaining Prince Lusignano whom he has condemned to death. Meanwhile Nerestano in his turn attempts to persuade Zaira to end her liaison with the hated Sultan, reminding her that her old father is about to die of grief. In fact, that date had to be changed due to the inability of Lalande to arrive in time for sufficient rehearsal. Orosmane is still doubtful and decides to test her: he will however have the secret message delivered to her. Bellini: Zaira (Live), an album by Vincenzo Bellini, Orchestra Internazionale D'Italia, Giacomo Sagripanti, Valeri Turmanov, Coro Lirico Terre Verdiane on Spotify We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. In a long complaint, which Torrigiani laid against Bellini after he had traveled to Milan to meet the composer and prima donna in an attempt to convince them to use his libretto, he reported to Parma's Grand Chamberlain upon his return in December. Zaira is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini set to a libretto by Felice Romani which was based on Voltaire’s 1732 tragedy, Zaïre. Nuova Era 232890 (2) BELLINI Vincenzo Bellini's fifth opera, Zaira has had a bad press since its disastrous 1829 premier Saturday September 6th 2014 – Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.30pm. At that moment, she hears the sounds of a funeral and, looking from the balcony and realising that it is her father who is dead, collapses in a faint, an action which amazes the other slaves and guards. Zaira Opera by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) Saturday September 6th 2014 – Taormina Greek Theatre, 9.30pm. Taormina.it is a non-commercial web page, created by a group of friends living in Taormina and wishing to fill an information gap on the internet about Taormina our small but very fascinating town. The beautiful slave Zaira is about to marry Orosmane, the Sultan of Jerusalem; there is a celebration in the harem, and odalisks and eunuchs dance and sing in his honor. Generously, he agrees. Humiliated, Orosmane hides in the garden along with Corasmino. Zaida herself is happy, but is reminded by Fatima, another slave girl, that she will have to give up her religion upon marriage, and this causes Zaira to declare that from then on, her religion will be that of love. Stalls (Parterre): € 85,00 She faints into Fatima’s arms. The pair arrive and Orosmane, seeing them ready to flee and believing them to be lovers, fatally wounds Zaira. Text, no translation. In a fit of jealousy, the sultan rushes at Zaira and fatally stabs her. This percentage is currently dominated by […], George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel Symphonic Concert Ancient Theatre, Sunday 20th September 2020 @ 9.30 pm   Tonight the Fondazione Taormina Arte and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania present a sympnhonic concert with musics of Georg Gershwin and Maurice Ravel   PROGRAMME   George Gershwin * An American in Paris […], https://www.taormina.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Vincenzo_Bellini.jpg, https://www.taormina.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TAORMINA-2-Custom.png, [portfolio column=”3″ cat=”null” title=”true” desc=”true” max=”12″ readmore=”Readmore” morebutton=”true” charlimits=”200″ pagination=”true” imgheight=”250″]. Gallery: € 70,00 Zaira reads her brother’s letter and is torn between torment at having to betray the trust of her beloved and grief over her father’s death, for which she feels guilty. Orosmane declares that he will kill any man who would be his rival in love. [1] Although it had been expressly written for the theatre's inauguration, it was a failure at its premiere.

But some of his courtiers resent the marriage, seeing the installation of a Christian woman as sacrilegious. Zaira’s rooms; a remote place near the quarters of the French knights; a hall of the Harem; a remote part of the Harem gardens. to leave the court. Corasmino has found what he believes to be evidence of Zaira's treachery in appearing to love Nerestano. [1], The offer to write the opera to inaugurate the house had originally been extended to Rossini, but he had declined due to his work on Le comte Ory for Paris and, while other composers were considered, in November 1828 the offer was made to Bellini, with the subject to be Cesare in Egitto, to be set to a libretto written by a Parma lawyer, Luigi Torrigiani. Zaira is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini set to a libretto by Felice Romani which was based on Voltaire's 1732 play, Zaïre.

At the revelation that they are brother and sister, he is overcome with grief and kills himself. [1] Several reason have been put forward: Lippmann and McGuire note, it was because "Bellini showed too little enthusiasm for the undertaking". Corasmino alerts the Sultan to the dangers which could arise from Lusignano return to Europe, but Orosmane does not want to refuse Zaira’s request. Zaira received its first performance at the "Nuovo Teatro Ducale" in Parma (now the Teatro Regio di Parma) on 16 May 1829.

Orosmane and Zaïre in an 1832 production of Voltaire's stage play, Torrigiani to Parma's Grand Chamberlain, 14 December 1828, in Galatopoulos 2002, p. 145, Romani, preface to the printed libretto of, Listed on operabase.com performance database, "Vincenzo Bellini": Outline of his life (in English) and list of critical editions of his works published by Ricordi, International Music Score Library Project, Category:Compositions by Vincenzo Bellini, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zaira_(opera)&oldid=937749578, Articles with Italian-language sources (it), Articles with French-language sources (fr), Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Lippmann, Friedrich; McGuire, Simon (1998), "Bellini, Vincenzo", in, Maguire, Simon; Elizabeth Forbes (1998), ".

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