Un giorno di regno
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Un giorno di regno, ossia il finto Stanislao (A One-Day Reign, or the false Stanislas) is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the play Le faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, September 5, 1840.
Un giorno di regno was Verdi's first attempt at comic opera. It was a complete failure, to which his own personal tragedy contributed; his first wife Margherita Barezzi died during its composition. Verdi would not attempt another comedy until the end of his career with Falstaff.
Verdi’s 1840 comedy, Un giorno di regno, tells the tale of the Polish monarch, King Stanislaus who is in hiding because of a War of Succession. In order to return to his rightfull throne, he sends in a decoy in the person of a French officer to the castle of the Barone di Kelbar, the false ruler. The Baron recently has arranged political alliances by marrying off his daughter and niece. But, to their grief, the women have other loves. On the day the real king is maneuvering to regain his throne, the false king is maneuvering to block the arranged marriages and deliver the women to their true loves.
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