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I cherusci

opera by Simon Mayr

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ60789194 ↗
Source-derived summary

I cherusci is a dramma per musica in 2 acts by Simon Mayr to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, for Carnival 1808. The plot is at the time of the battles between the Germanic tribes the Marcomanni and Cherusci.

Cast

Treuta, tenor - popular leader of the Marcomanni people

Tusnelda, soprano - Treuta's slave, a Cheruscan, but due to be sacrificed by the druids

Tamaro, soprano - enemy leader of the Cherusci and bards

Zarasto, bass - high priest of the druids

Ercilda, soprano - allied with Treuta

Carilo, tenor - leader of the Sarronides, allied with Treuta

Dunclamo, tenor - adoptive father of Tusnelda, who later discovers that Treuta is Tusnelda's father

Araldo, tenor

Recording

I cherusci Bayerische Staatsoper, Franz Hauk.

Editorial summary

“I cherusci” enters the record as opera by Simon Mayr. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what cherusci, opera and Simon can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1808—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around cherusci, opera and Simon.
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“I cherusci” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, cherusci, opera and Simon provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60789194. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1808.

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This entry incorporates text from “I cherusci” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.