Mona Lisa

from Max von Schillings


Mona Lisa
Opera in two acts with a prologue and an epilogue

Libretto

Beatrice von Dovsky

Premiere

26 September 1915, Stuttgart (Kleines Haus)

Cast

Prologue and epilogue (to-day)
A FOREIGNER (baritone)
HIS YOUNG WIFE (soprano)
EIN LAIENBRUDER (tenor)

Personen der Handlung im Jahre 1492:
FRANCESCO DEL GIOCONDO (baritone)
MONA FIORDALISA (soprano)
GIOVANNI DE SALVIATI (tenor)
PIETRO TUMONI (bass)
ARRIGO OLDOFREDI (tenor)
ALESSIO BENEVENTI (tenor)
SANDRO DA LUZZANO (baritone)
MASOLINI PEDRUZZI (bass)
DIANORA (soprano)
MONA GINEVRA AD ALTA ROCCA (soprano)
PICCARDA (contralto)
SISTO (tenor)

CHORUS
citizens of Florence, nuns and monks, servants

Place

Florence

Time

to-day and end of the 15th century

Composer

Schillings, Max von