Carlo re d'Allemagna


Carlo re d'Allemagna is a three-act dramma per musica by Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti to a libretto by Giuseppe Papis, after, premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo of Naples on 26 or 30 January 1716. This is the composer's 79th opera out of 114 composed.
Silvani's libretto was already set to music by in Venice in 1698, under the title L'innocenza giustificata and another set to music by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini in Ferrara in 1712, but under the title L'innocenza difesa and given again in Bologna and Parma in 1713 and 1714, shortly before Scarlatti's opera. Papis adds comic roles to Silvani's drama, a contrast much appreciated in Naples, absent from Silvani's original libretto, which play the role of intermezzi at the end of the acts.
The title refers to Charles the Bald and Judith of Bavaria.

Roles

Synopsis

Lotario plots against his half-brother Carlo and his mother-in-law Giuditta to gain access to the throne he covets.

Recordings

Carlo re d'Allemagna – Romina Basso, contralto ; Roberta Invernizzi, soprano ; Marina de Liso, mezzo-soprano ; Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano ; Carlo Allemano, tenor ; Josè Maria Lo Monaco, mezzo-soprano ; Damiana Pinti, alto ; Roberto Abbondanza, bass ; Orchestre symphonique de Stavanger, conductor/violin Fabio Biondi – The recording does not include eleven of the opera's 46 arias.
Sinfonia and arias