Ernani
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Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
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Ernani, costume design for Ernani, act 3 (1881)
Sophie Löwe, the first Elvira
Carlo Guasco, the first Ernani
Victor Hugo
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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Ernani
…Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked with…
Hugo in 1875
Sophie Trébuchet, mother of Victor Hugo
General Joseph-Leopold Hugo, father of Victor Hugo
Hugo by Jean Alaux, 1825