Dramma lirico in four acts
Libretto
Temistocle Solera
after Tommaso Grossi
Premiere
11 February 1843, Milan (La Scala)
Cast
ARVINO (tenor)
PAGANO (bass)
GISELDA (soprano)
ORONTE (tenor)
CHORUS
nuns, city fathers, hired ruffians, armed retainers in Folco's palace, ambassadors from Persia, Media, Damascus and Chaldea, knights and soldiers of the crusade, pilgrims, Lombard women, women of the harem, celestial vergins
Place
Milan, Antiochi and Jerusalem
Time
End of the 11th century