Pepita Jiménez (opera)
Role Voice type Premiere cast , 5 January 1896 ( Conductor : Vittorio Vanzo ) Revised 2-act version , 3 January 1905 ( Conductor : Sylvain Depuis )
Pepita Jiménez , a young widow soprano Emma Zilli ( or Zilly ) Mme Baux
Don Luis de Vargas , a young theological student tenor Oreste Gennari ( or Genaro ) M. David
Antoñona , her serving woman mezzo-soprano Carlotta Calvi-Calvi Jeanne Maubourg
Don Pedro de Vargas , father of Luis baritone Marco Barba Pierre d'Assy
Vicar bass Oreste Luppi Hippolyte Belhomme
Count Genazahar , a gay young officer baritone Achille Tisseyre Alexis Boyer
1st Officer tenor Antonio Oliver Armand Crabbé
2nd Officer baritone Alfredo Serazzi M. Lubet
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Pepita Jiménez is a lyric comedy or comic opera with music written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. The original opera was written in one act and used an English libretto by Albéniz's patron and collaborator, the Englishman Francis Money-Coutts, which is based on the novel of the same name by Juan Valera. The opera was later adapted several times, first by the composer and later by others, into numerous languages and different constructs, including both a two-act version and a three-act version.