Linda di Chamounix
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Linda di Chamounix is melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna, at the Kärntnertortheater, on 19 May 1842.
Eugenia Tadolini, the first singer of the title role, portrait by Josef Kriehuber
Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for Linda di Chamounix (1957).
Felice Varesi
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Felice Varesi was a French-born Italian baritone with an illustrious singing career that began in the 1830s and extended into the 1860s. He is best remembered today for his close association with seve
Linda di Chamounix
…Eugenia Tadolini Carlo, Vicomte de Sirval tenor Napoleone Moriani Pierotto, an orphan contralto Marietta Brambilla Antonio, Linda's father baritone Felice Varesi Marquis de Boisfleury basso buffo or baritone Agostino Rovere Prefect basso profondo Prosper Dérivis Maddalena, Linda's mother soprano Madeleine Nottes…
Felice Varesi, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1843