Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. First performance: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) is to date the most influential composer of the 19th centurys Italian School of Opera. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... The last of Voltaires statues by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1781). ... The San Carlo is a famous opera house in Naples, Italy. ... Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region and the Province of Naples. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...