Che originali!
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| Title: | Che originali! |
| Shape: | Farsa |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Johann Simon Mayr |
| Libretto : | Gaetano Rossi |
| Premiere: | October 18, 1798 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro San Benedetto , Venice |
| Place and time of the action: | a city in Italy |
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Che originali! is a one-act Farsa by the Bavarian composer Johann Simon Mayr with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi . It premiered on October 18, 1798 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice.
content
Don Febeo, a bourgeois citizen and fanatical but amateur music lover, has two daughters: Aristea, who is completely in love with the poetry of Metastasio and is therefore called "Metastasiasta", and the hypochondriac Rosina. The father wants both daughters to be gifted musicians and to find a man who also has considerable musical success. Aristea is already engaged to Don Carolino, who is aristocratic but completely unmusical. The father opposes this relationship. Don Carolino does not give up and disguises himself as a famous Kapellmeister by the name of Signor Semiminima.
history
The libretto of Farsa comes from Gaetano Rossi , who in turn took a French libretto as a model.
Lorenzo Canobio (Don Febeo), Elisabetta Gafforini (Donna Aristea), Antonio Gordigiani (Don Carolino), Sofia Ricomini (Donna Rosina), Filippo Bandini (Biscroma), Carolina sang at the premiere on October 18, 1798 in the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice Altieri Costa (Celestina) and Antonio Roani (Carluccio).
The play had great success in Venice and cemented Mayr's fame. It has been performed several times under other titles: Il pazzo per la musica , La melomane , Il trionfo della musica , Il fanatico per la musica , La musicomania . The title Musikomanie most likely reflects the content.
Recordings
From November 23 to 25, 1998, Che originali! Recorded on CD under the direction of Franz Hauk in the Ingolstadt Theater in the Sandersdorf Palace courtyard.
Web links
- Che originali! : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (Italian), Venice 1798. Digitized at Google Books
- Che originali! (Giovanni Simone Mayr) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Performances (1770–1830) by Che originali! in the DFG opera project
- CD supplement with libretto (Italian / German / English / French) on guildmusic.com (PDF)
- Review of the CD recording on classical-music-review-blog.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Record of the performance on October 18, 1798 in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on August 2, 2016.
- ↑ DNB 99733715X DNB entry in the program for the 1998 performance.