I Lombardi alla prima crociata is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very muc
"The departure of the Lombards for the Crusade"
Giuseppe Verdi
Temistocle Solera, the librettist of the opera
Title page of an 1843 libretto of I Lombardi
Jérusalem
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Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was to be an adaptation and partial translation of the composer's original 1843 Italian opera, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. I
I Lombardi alla prima crociata
…was significantly revised to become Verdi's first grand opera for performances in France at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera under the title of Jérusalem. Grossi's original epic poem had plot complications that required the librettist to make significant changes; the historical characters portrayed in…
"Tancred of Hauteville, the siege of Jerusalem" by Émile Signol
Giuseppina Strepponi (c. 1845) (Museo Teatrale alla Scala)
Gilbert Duprez as Gaston
Adolphe Louis Joseph Alizard as Roger in Jérusalem