La fiera di Venezia
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La fiera di Venezia | |
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Opera buffa by Antonio Salieri | |
Translation | The fair in Venice |
Librettist | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 29 January 1772 Burgtheater, Vienna |
La fiera di Venezia (The fair in Venice) is a three-act opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini (brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini).
Performance history[edit]
The opera premiered with great success on 29 January 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.[1][2] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe.[3] In 1773, Mozart wrote fortepiano variations to the aria "Mio caro adone". In the movie Amadeus, Mozart called the aria, “a funny little tune but it yielded some good things”.[citation needed][relevant?]
Roles[edit]
Role | Voice type |
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Falsirena | soprano |
Calloandra | soprano |
Cristallina | soprano |
Ostrogoto | tenor |
Rasoio | tenor |
Cecchino | tenor |
Grifagno | bass |
Belfusto | bass |
Recordings[edit]
- Complete recording – Falsirena: Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Grifagno: Furio Zanasi,; Calloandra: Dilyara Idrisova, Ostrogoto: Krystian Adam, Cristallina: Natalia Rubiś, Rasojo: Emanuele D'Aguanno, Belfusto: Giorgio Caoduro; choir and Orchestra l'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt DHM 2CD 2019
References[edit]
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "La fiera di Venezia, 29 January 1772". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ^ Music and History.com page Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Mozart–Salieri Connection" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine by Volkmar Braunbehrens