What is Salvatore Cammarano?
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} [[File:Salvadore Cammarano.jpg|thumb|right|Salvadore Cammarano]] '''Salvatore Cammarano''' (also Salvadore) (19 March 1801 – 17 July 1852) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[librettist]] and [[playwright]]. He is probably best known for writing the text of ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' (1835) for [[Gaetano Donizetti]]. He was born and died in [[Naples]]. For Donizetti he also wrote ''[[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). For [[Giuseppe Persiani]] he wrote ''[[Ines de Castro]]''. For [[Verdi]] he wrote ''[[Alzira (opera)|Alzira]]'' (1845), ''[[La battaglia di Legnano]]'' (1849) and ''[[Luisa Miller]]'' (1849). He had almost finished his libretto for ''[[Il trovatore]]'' (1853) when he died in July 1852. It was completed by [[Leone Emanuele Bardare]].<ref>Budden, Vol. 2, p.65</ref> Cammarano started a libretto for [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[King Lear]]'', named ''[[Re Lear]]''. He died before completing it. A [[scenario]] survives. == References == {{reflist}} * Black, John, ''The Italian Romantic Libretto: A Study of Salvadore Cammarano'', Edinburgh University Press, 1984 {{ISBN|978-0-85224-463-0}} {{ISBN|978-0-85224-463-0}} * {{cite book| last = Budden| first = Julian| title = The Operas of Verdi: From Don Carlos to Falstaff| url = https://archive.org/details/operasofverdi0002budd| year = 1978| publisher = Oxford University Press, USA }} * {{cite book| last = Warrack| first = John Hamilton| title = The Oxford Dictionary of Opera| url = https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00warr| year = 1992| publisher = Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press| isbn = 978-0-19-869164-8 }} == Other websites == * [http://opera.stanford.edu/librettists/Cammarano.html Opera at Stanford University] {{Biography-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cammarano, Salvatore}} [[Category:1801 births]] [[Category:1852 deaths]] [[Categor