Matilde Shabran

Bellezza e cuor di ferro

Melodramma giocoso in due atti

• Composer: Giochino Rossini
• Librettist: Jacopo Ferretti
• Source: Euphrosine, ou le Tyran corrigé, opera by Méhul, libretto by François Benoît Hofmann
• First performance: Teatro Apollo, Rome, 24 February, 1821
• Alternate Titles:
  • Bellezza e Cuor di Ferro (Naples, 1821)
  • Matilde di Shabran (common)
  • Corradino (Milan, 1821)
• Libretto [Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft]

Dramatis Personæ

Corradino, Cuor di ferro (tenor)

Matilde di Shabran, (soprano)

Raimondo Lopez, father of (bass)

Edoardo, (contralto)

Aliprando, a doctor (bass)

Isidoro, a poet (buffo)

Countess d'Arco, (mezzo-soprano)

Ginardo, tower warden (bass)

Egoldo, peasant leader (tenor)

Rodrigo, captain of the guard (tenor)

Udolfo, a jailer (mute)

Soldiers and peasants

Setting:The castle of Corradino in Spain, and environs.