La battaglia di Legnano

from Giuseppe Verdi


Tragedia lirica in four acts

Libretto

Salvatore Cammarano after Joseph Méry

Premiere

27 January 1849, Rome (Teatro Argentina)

Cast

ROLANDI (baritone)
LIDA (soprano)
ARRIGO (tenor)

CHORUS
Cavaliers of Death, magistrates and leaders of the people of Como, Lida's serving maids, people of Milan, senators of Milan, soldiers from Verona, Novara, Piacenza and Milan, German army

Place

Milan and Como

Time

1176

Composer

Verdi, Giuseppe