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{{italic title}}[[File:Feramor, figurino di Franz Gaul per Feramors (1872) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON007337.jpg|thumb|Feramor, costume design for ''Feramors ''(1872).]]
'''''Feramors''''' is an [[opera]] in three (first version) or two (second version) acts by [[Anton Rubinstein]] to a [[libretto]] by [[Julius Rodenberg]]. The story is based on ''[[Lalla Rookh]]'' by the Irish poet [[Thomas Moore]]. The opera was composed in 1862.
==Performance history==
The opera was premiered at the [[Semperoper]] in Dresden on 24 February 1863,<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=24 February 1863|match=Feramors}}</ref> and had subsequent stagings in Vienna (1872), Milan (1874), Berlin (1879), and Danzig (1880). Its first production in Russia was an amateur performance in Saint Petersburg in 1884. The first professional production there was on 18 August 1898 at the [[Mariinsky Theatre]], conducted by [[Felix Blumenfeld]].<ref>[http://www.classic-music.ru/feramors.html ''Feramors''], classic-music.ru website (in Russian)</ref> The reason for its late appearance on the Russian stage was competition from an [[opéra-comique]] on the same subject by [[Félicien David]]. [[Peter Tchaikovsky]], who heard the opera at the Berlin 1879 staging, liked the opera and wrote to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] that "it comes from the period in which Rubinstein did all his best work, that is 20 years ago".<ref>[[Richard Taruskin]], "''Feramors''", ''[[Oxford Music Online]]'' {{subscription required}}</ref>
Perhaps the same Berlin production of 4 March 1879 produced an interesting report in the ''[[Musical Times]]''; "Rubinstein's opera ... was successfully produced on the 4th ''ult.'' at the Royal Opera house at Berlin, the principal ''rôles'' being taken by Herr Niemann and Madame Mallinger; in consequence, however, of the latter having refused to sing certain portions of her part, the composer abstained from personally conducting his work."<ref>[[The Musical Times|The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular]], Vol. 20, No. 434, 1 April 1879, "Foreign Notes", p. 221.</ref>
==Roles==
{| class="wikitable"
|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]
|-
|Lalla Roukh, ''princess of [[Hindustan]]'' || [[soprano]]
|-
|Hafisa, ''her friend'' || [[contralto]]
|-
|Feramors, ''a minstrel'' || [[tenor]]
|-
|Fadladin, ''ruler (Grossvezier) of Hindustan'' || [[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|-
|Chosru, ''ambassador of the king of [[Bokhara]]'' || [[baritone]]
|-
|A [[muezzin]] || tenor
|-
|A messenger || tenor
|}
==Synopsis==
Lalla, the princess of Hindustan, is engaged to marry the King of Bokhara, but falls in love with the minstrel Feramors, who turns out to be the King in disguise.
==Recordings==
There are a number of recordings of the ballet music from the opera, which includes a 'Torch Dance' and a 'Dance of [[Devadasi|Bayaderes]]', both written in the composer's style of exotic orientalism.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.220451
| title = On-line catalogue entry – Rubinstein: ''Feramors'' / ''The Demon'' / ''Nero''
| publisher = Naxos Records
| accessdate = 28 September 2010}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==External links==
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