Wally is a opera in four acts of Alfredo Catalani, on a booklet of Luigi Illica, created with Milan the January 20th 1892.

At the origin a novel and a Play of Wilhelmine von Hillern, Die Geyer-Wally (literally: “Wally with the vultures”), the action occurs in a village Tyrolean, the father of heroin having chosen a party to him of which she does not want.

Characters

• Wally (Soprano)
• Stromminger , his/her father (Low)
• Afra , landlord (Contralto)
• Walter , troubadour (Soprano)
• Giuseppe Hagenbach (Tenor)
• Vincenzo Gellner (Baritone)
• the messenger of Schnals (Tenor)

The Aria Ebben? Andrò lontana (act I), given to the honor by the film Diva of Jean-Jacques Beineix, intervenes at the time when Wally decides to leave the family home definitively.

External bonds

• the booklet