Biographical Overview & Key Facts

Subject:

Salvadore Cammarano

Role / Field:

Italian librettist and playwright, celebrated for texts like Lucia di Lammermoor.

Born:

1801-03-19

Died:

1852-07-17

Century / Era:

1801s Historical Era

Database Source:

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Origins & Early Life

Salvadore Cammarano (19 March 1801 – 17 July 1852) was an Italian librettist and playwright, perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti. For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for L'assedio di Calais (1836), Belisario (1836), Pia de' Tolomei (1837), Roberto Devereux (1837), Maria de Rudenz (1838), Poliuto (1838), and Maria di Rohan (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani he was the author of Ines de Castro. For Verdi he wrote Alzira (1845), La battaglia di Legnano (1849) and Luisa Miller (1849), but after he died in July 1852, Verdi worked with Leone Emanuele Bardare to complete the libretto for Il trovatore (1853). Cammarano also started work on a libretto for a proposed adaptation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear, named Re Lear, but he died before completing it; a detailed scenario survives.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

His father, Giuseppe, was a painter and set-designer. His son, Michele, was also a painter. Notes Sources Black, John (1982), Donizetti's Operas in Naples, 1822 to 1848, London: Donizetti Society, 1982 Black, John (1984), The Italian Romantic Libretto: A Study of Salvadore Cammarano, Edinburgh...

Enduring Legacy & Impact

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