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La Wally
1892 opera by Alfredo Catalani
La Wally is an opera in four acts by composer Alfredo Catalani, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 20 January 1892.
It was Catalani's last opera.[1]
The libretto is based on a hugely successful Heimatroman by Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916), Die Geier-Wally [de], Eine Geschichte aus den Tyroler Alpen (The Vulture Wally: A Story from the Tyrolean Alps).
Wally, short for Walburga, is a girl with some heroic attributes.
La wally renata tebaldi biography
The story is based on an episode in the life of Tyrolean painter Anna Stainer-Knittel, whom von Hillern met. She got her epithet "Geier" (vulture, the local name for eagle) from having gutted a bearded vulture's nest going down a rope; this dangerous task, aimed at protecting the sheep in the Alpine village, was typically performed by a man.
Von Hillern's piece was originally serialized in Deutsche Rundschau and was reproduced in English as "A Germ