Antonio Orefice

Antonio Orefice (also: Orefici , Arefece ; * around 1685 in Naples ; † around 1727 there) was a Neapolitan lawyer and composer.

Orefice is at the beginning of the development of the Opera buffa in Naples. Like Michelangelo Faggioli , whose opera La Scilla premiered privately in 1706, he was a lawyer by profession, and like this he composed comic operas (commedia per musica) based on libretti in the Neapolitan dialect . With his opera Patrò Calienno de la Costa , the Teatro dei Fiorentini was opened in 1709 , which in the following years established itself as a venue for comic operas in Naples.

Works

• Il Maurizio (Libretto: Nicolò Minato / Giuseppe Papis ) (dramma per musicam UA 1708)
• Bellina e Lenno (intermezzo, WP 1708)
• Patrò Calienno de la Costa (Libretto: Agasippo Mercotellis ) (commedia per musica, WP 1709)
• Engelberta ossia La forza dell'amore (with Francesco Mancini ; libretto: Apostolo Zeno / Pietro Pariati ) (dramma per musica, WP 1709)
• Melissa schernita (intermezzo, WP Naples)
• La pastorella al soglio (Libretto: Giulio Cesare Corradi ) (dramma per musica, WP 1710)
• Velasco e Drusilla (intermezzo, WP 1710)
• La Camilla (anonymous) (dramma per musica, WP 1710)
• Circe delusa (anonymous) (dramma per musica, WP 1713)
• Caligula delirante (Libretto: Domenico Gisberti ) (dramma per musica, WP 1713)
• Circe delusa (Libretto: Giorgio Antonio Falier ) (dramma per musica, WP 1713)
• Lo finto armeneio (Libretto: Giorgio Antonio Falier) (commedia per musica, WP 1717)
• Le fente zingare (Libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio ) (commedia per musica, WP 1717)
• La fenta pazza co la fenta malata (Libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio) (commedia per musica, WP 1718)
• Il gemino amore (Libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio) (commedia per musica, WP 1718)
• Chi la dura la vince (Libretto: Michele del Zanca ) (commedia per musica, WP 1721)
• La Locinna (Libretto: Michele del Zanca) (tragicommedia, WP 1723)
• Lo simmele (Libretto: Bernardo Saddumene ) (commedia per musica; WP 1724)
• L'annore resarciuto (Libretto: Nicola Gianni ) (commedia per musica, WP 1727)
• La vecchia trammera (with Leonardo Leo , libretto: Francesco Antonio Tullio) (commedia per musica, WP 1732)
• La finta pellegrina (with Domenico Natale Sarri , libretto: Francesco Oliva ) (commedia per musica, WP 1734)

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• operone - Antonio Orefice
• David RB Kimbell: "Italian Opera" , revised new edition Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 9780521466431 , p. 315
• Hermann W. Haller: "The Other Italy: The Literary Canon in Dialect" , University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 9780802044242 , p. 248
• Karl Heinrich Wörner, Lenz Meierott: "History of music: a study and reference book" , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993, ISBN 9783525278116 , p. 299