Emilio Arrieta
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Arrieta was born in Puente la Reina
Puente La Reina
Puente La Reina is a town and municipality located in the autonomous community of Navarra, in northern Spain....
, Navarre
Navarre
Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...
, and died in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. His Italian training led him, under the favour of Queen Isabel II
Isabella II of Spain
Isabella II was the only female monarch of Spain in modern times. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognise a female sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of...
, to concentrate on operatic writing; and though he later composed zarzuela
Zarzuela
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance...
s he remained less committed to the renascent art form than his contemporaries such as Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, zarzuela. His works include: El barberillo de Lavapiés, Jugar con fuego, Pan y toros, Don Quijote, Los diamantes de la corona, and El Diablo en el poder.He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the...
, continuing to write in an essentially Italianate style throughout his life.
The 1887, through-sung and rewritten opera version of his zarzuela, Marina, is one of the most popular lyric stage works in the Spanish repertoire. It has been produced and recorded (on CD and DVD) many times.
Operas
- 1846 Ildegonda
- 1850 La conquista de Granada, 3 acts - libretto: Temistocle SoleraTemistocle SoleraTemistocle Solera was an Italian opera composer and librettist.He was born at Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughout his life he actively participated in anti-Austrian resistance. At one point, he was incarcerated for his...
- 1851 Pergolesi
- 1887 Marina, 3 acts (adapted from the 1855 zarzuela) - libretto: Francisco Camprodón and Miguel Ramos Carrión
Zarzuelas
- 1853 El dominó Azul, 3 acts - libretto: Francisco Camprodón
- 1853 El grumete, 1 acte - libretto: Antonio García GutiérrezAntonio García GutiérrezAntonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père...
- 1853 La estrella de Madrid, 3 acts - libretto: Adelardo López de Ayala
- 1854 La cacería real
- 1855 Guerra a Muerte
- 1855 La dama del Rey
- 1855 Marina, 2 acts - libretto: Francisco Camprodón
- 1856 La hija de la Providencia
- 1856 El sonámbulo
- 1858 El planeta Venus, 3 acts - libretto: Ventura de la Vega
- 1858 Azón Visconti, 3 acts - libretto: Antonio García GutiérrezAntonio García GutiérrezAntonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père...
- 1860 Los circasianos, 3 acts - libretto: Luis Olona
- 1861 Llamada y tropa, 2 acts - libretto: Antonio García GutiérrezAntonio García GutiérrezAntonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père...
- 1862 La Tabernera de Londres
- 1863 La vuelta del corsario, 1 acte - libretto: Antonio García GutiérrezAntonio García GutiérrezAntonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist.After having studied medicine in his native town, he moved to Madrid in 1833 and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père...
(second part of: El grumete) - 1866 El duende de Madrid
- 1866 El conjuro, 1 acte - libretto: Adelardo López de Ayala
- 1866 Un sarao y una soirée 2 acts - libretto: Miguel Ramos Carrión and Eduardo de Lustonó
- 1867 La suegra del diablo, 3 acts - libretto: Eusebio Blasco y Soler
- 1867 El figle enamorado, 1 acte - libretto: Miguel Ramos Carrión
- 1867 Los novios de Teruel, 2 acts - libretto: Eusebio Blasco y Soler
- 1869 De Madrid a Biarritz, 2 acts - libretto: Miguel Ramos Carrión and Carlos Coello
- 1870 El potosí submarino, 3 acts - libretto: Rafael García Santisteban
- 1873 Las manzanas de oro 3 acts - libretto: Eusebio Blasco y Soler and Emilio ÁlvarezEmilio AlvarezEmilio Alvarez may refer to:*Emilio Álvarez Icaza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican Federal District*Emilio Álvarez Lejarza , Nicaraguan jurist and political writer...
- 1873 San Franco de Sena, 3 acts - libretto: José Estremera
- 1879 La guerra santa, 3 acts - libretto: Luis Mariano de Larra after: Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
- 1880 Heliodora o El amor enamorado, 3 acts - libretto: Juan Eugenio HartzenbuschJuan Eugenio HartzenbuschJuan Eugenio Hartzenbusch , was a Spanish dramatist. He was the Director of the National Library of Spain until he retired in 1875.-Biography:...
- 1885 El Guerrillero, (together with: Manuel Fernández Caballero and Ruperto ChapíRuperto ChapíRuperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home town and Madrid...
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