Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)
Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon) is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered on 29 January 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.[1]
The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes."[2] Galuppi's music exploits "the capacity of the music to illustrate and portray the text," with special attention for Buonafede, credulous old man who is the central character of the plot.[3]
The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by at least seven other composers: Florian Leopold Gassmann (1761), Niccolò Piccinni (1762), Pietro Antonio Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774, 1777, 1783, 1792), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Franz Joseph Haydn (1777), Michele Neri Bondi (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos António Portugal (1791).[4][5] Paisiello composed four different versions of operas based on this libretto (one of them, 1783, was a reduction in two acts by Marco Coltellini; another, 1774, was performed as Il credulo deluso).[3][6]
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 29 January 1750 (Conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|
| Ecclitico, a would-be astrologer | bass | |
| Buonafede, credulous man | bass | |
| Flaminia, daughter of Buonafede | soprano | |
| Clarice, another daughter of Buonafede | contralto | |
| Lisetta, maid | soprano | |
| Ernesto | soprano | |
| Cecco, servant of Ernesto | bass |
Synopsis
See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.
Recordings
1997: Franco Piva, Intermusica Ensemble, Bongiovanni Cat: 2217/19[7] | |
|---|---|
Ecclittico: Giorgio Gatti |
Lisetta: Patrizia Ciona |
References
Notes
- ↑ "Première of Il mondo della luna by Galuppi" (in Italian). amadeusonline. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ Monson, 1992
- 1 2 Mellace, 1996
- ↑ "Il mondo della luna" (in Italian). amadeusonline. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30.
- ↑ "Il Mondo della Luna di Baldassare galuppi" (in Italian). Cultura e Spettacolo Venezia. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ Morin], Alexander J. "Galuppi - Il mondo della luna". [http://www.classical.net/ Classical Net Review. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
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Sources
- Monson, Dale E. (1992). "Mondo della luna, Il (i)". In Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 3. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.
- Mellace, Raffaele (1996). "Mondo della luna, Il di Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785)". In Gelli, Piero. Dizionario dell'opera (in Italian). Milano: Baldini&Castoldi. ISBN 88-8089-177-4.
External links
- "Baldassarre Galuppi, Il Mondo della luna" (in Italian). Opera Manager. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
|publisher=(help) - "Libretto for a 1751 performance in Florence" (in Italian). Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica - Catalogo Gaspari. Retrieved 14 March 2015. External link in
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