La fiera di Venezia
Template:Salieri operas La fiera di Venezia is a three-act opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.
Performance history
The opera premiered with great success on 29 January 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.[1] 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.[2]
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 29 January 1772 (Conductor: ) |
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| Falsirena | soprano | |
| Calloandra | soprano | |
| Cristallina | soprano | |
| Ostrogoto | tenor | |
| Rasoio | tenor | |
| Cecchino | tenor | |
| Grifagno | bass | |
| Belfusto | bass |
Recordings
- complete recording - Falsirena: Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Soprano ; Grifagno: Furio Zanasi, Baritone ; Calloandra: Dilyara Idrisova, Soprano ; Ostrogoto: Krystian Adam, Tenor Cristallina: Natalia Rubiś, Soprano ; Rasojo: Emanuele D’Aguanno, Tenor ; Belfusto: Giorgio Caoduro, Baritone ; Choir and Orchestra l’arte del mondo Werner Ehrhardt DHM 2CD 2019
References
- ^ 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
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