from Act I, Scene 1 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Arrigo, a soldier from Verona

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: spinto

Setting: near the walls of rebuilt Milan, 1176

Synopsis: Arrigo steps out of his fellow soldiers and speaks directly to the city itself speaking of its glory.

from Act I, Scene 2 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Lida, Rolando's wife

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: dramatic coloratura

Setting: next to the moats surrounding Milan under some trees, 1176

Synopsis: Lida has found out that Arrigo, her former lover who she thought was dead, is actually alive. She sings of her joy of finding him alive.

from Act IV of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Lida, Rolando's wife

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: dramatic coloratura

Setting: the front of a church in Milan, 1176

Synopsis: While the assembled crowd prays that the soldiers will be victorious over the Germans, Lida prays that Rolando can forgive her infidelity with Arrigo.

from Act I, Scene 2 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Lida, Rolando's wife

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: dramatic coloratura

Setting: next to the moats surrounding Milan under some trees, 1176

Synopsis: Lida's companions cannot understand why she is not happy on this day of Milan's victory. She tells them that she cannot be happy because her brothers and her parents have been killed in battle and although joy is all around her, she can only cry.

from Act I, Scene 1 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Rolando, a soldier of Milan, married to Lida

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: near the walls of rebuilt Milan, 1176

Synopsis: Rolando reunites with his friend Arrigo who he believed had died in war. He sings of the grief he felt when he thought he was dead.

from Act III, Scene 2 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Rolando, a soldier of Milan, married to Lida

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: Lida's rooms in Rolando's castle, Milan, 1176

Synopsis: Rolando receives a note that has been intercepted en route between his wife Lida and his best friend Arrigo saying that she must see him once more before he enters battle in the name of their illicit love. Upon hearing this, Rolando explodes into his cabaletta of rage against the two.

from Act III, Scene 2 of the Italian opera La Battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

Role: Rolando, a soldier of Milan, married to Lida

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: dramatic baritone

Setting: Lida's rooms in Rolando's castle, Milan, 1176

Synopsis: About to enter battle against the Germans, Rolando tells Arrigo that if he is killed in the impending battle, Arrigo will be in charge of his wife and child.