Il bravo
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| Opera by Saverio Mercadante | |
Costume for the opera's protagonist "Il bravo" (designed for the 1840 Naples production)
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| Librettist | Gaetano Rossi |
| Language | Italian |
| Premiere | 9 March 1839 La Scala, Milan |
Il bravo, ossia La Veneziana ("The Assassin, or The Venetian Woman") is an opera in three acts by Saverio Mercadante to an Italian-language libretto by Gaetano Rossi and Marco Marcello. Their libretto was based on the play La Vénétienne by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, which was in turn based on James Fennimore Cooper's novel The Bravo. The opera premiered on 9 March 1839 at La Scala, Milan and subsequently played throughout Italy and abroad. The opera was still being occasionally performed and recorded in the 20th century.
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