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Music: Richard Wagner. Lyrics: Richard Wagner after Edward George Bulwer-Lyttons novel Rienzi, the last tribune.(1834)
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First performance: 20 oktober 1842 at Hoftheater in Dresden.
| Role | Voicetype |
|---|---|
| Cola Rienzi, påvlig notarie, | tenor |
| Irene,his sister, | soprano |
| Steffano Colonna, släktens Colonnas överhuvud , | bass |
| Adriano,his son, | mezzosoprano |
| Paolo Orsini,släkten Orsinis överhuvud, | bass |
| Raimondo, påvlig legat, | bas |
| Baroncelli och Cecco del Vecchio, romerska borgare, | tenor och bass |
| En fredsbudbärare, | soprano |
| En härold, | tenor |
| Romerska ädlingar, sändebud, präster, munkar, soldater, romerska medborgare | kör |
Time and place: Rome, 1400-century.
Rome, in the fourteenth century. The pope has fled, leaving the city´s two leading families, the orsini and Colonna, to fight it out. Paolo Orsini tries to kidnap Irene, the sister of the Roman Tribune Rienzi, but she is saved by Adriano Colonna. Rioting breaks out and only with the arrival of Rienzi and his henchman is order restored. He then closes the city gates as the cardinals offers to support Rienzi in his quest to break off the power of the nobles. He calls on the people to ready themselves for a fight.
Irene tells her father that she was rescued by Adriano Colonna, who has offered to help restore the rule of law. It imerges that Adriano and Irine are lovers, and Rienzi promises to protect them just as he is proclaimed king. Rienzi returns the city to peace, and all the major families offer their support.
Although the city is a t peace, the Orsini and Colonna families secretely plot Rienzi´s downfall.Adriano hears his family scheming to kill Rienzi,and he tries to warn the tribune. Rienzi does not take the threat to his sovereignty seriously and announces his ascension as the "peoples emperor". A Celebration is mounted in honour of the new emperor, at which the nobles attempt to kill him. Rienzi spares the lives of the conspirators, but after a further insurrection he condemns them to death. Adriani is faced with a terrible dilemma: where to place his loyalties, to Irene´s brother or to his father? He prays for reconciliation, but during another battle both Colonna and Orsini are killed.
The people are victorious, but Adriano swears to revenge his father´s death by killing Rienzi.So heavy have the casualties been that a new group of nobles begin to plot Rienzi´s death; this time he loses the support of the people and the church, which excommunicates him Irene Is alone in standing by him.
The people again fall to rioting and the Capitol is set on fire. As the city burns the tower in which Rienzi and Irene are trapped collapses, killing Adriano in the process.
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