Edoardo Vera

Italian opera composer

Edoardo Vera (1821–1889) was an Italian opera composer.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Works

Anelda da Messina
Valeria: lyric tragedy in four acts to a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni – 1869
Adriana Lecouvreur e la duchessa di Bouillon: (on the same subject as Adriana Lecouvreur) lyric drama in 4 acts to a libretto by Achille de Lauzières – 1856^[4]

^ Trevelyan, Raleigh (2012). Princes Under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571288915. OCLC 985906942. As for Edoardo Vera, the composer, famed for his wit and repartee, he would say that he only held three persons sacred: the rightful Queen of Italy, his sister and Giulia Scalia.
^ "Letter to Niccolo Vaccai, censor of the 'Conservatoria' of Milan, recommending Edoardo Vera, the composer; dated Paris, 15th June, 1843. Italian. Holograph. Purchased in 1875". A guide to the autograph letters, manuscripts British museum dept. of MSS. – 1878.
^ Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale (1916). Memories. Vol. 1. p. 195. In his last years, when he had retired from the stage, had lost his fortune, and was custode of a museum, Queen Margherita was extremely anxious to hear him sing, and commissioned Edoardo Vera, her music master, to try and get him to do ...
^ Stanley Sadie; Laura Macy (2006). The Grove Book of Operas. p. 2. Cilea chose the subject for its mixture of comedy and tragedy, its 18th-century ambience, the loving intensity of its protagonist and the moving final act; three other operas use the story of Adrienne Lecouvreur (by Edoardo Vera, ...