Daliso e Delmita
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| Original title: | Daliso e Delmita |
| Shape: | Azione pastoral |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Antonio Salieri |
| Libretto : | Giovanni De Gamerra |
| Premiere: | July 29, 1776 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna, Burgtheater |
| Playing time: | about 2 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | In the country near Athens |
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Daliso e Delmita is an “Azione pastorale” in two acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni De Gamerra . The first performance took place on July 29, 1776 in the Vienna Burgtheater .
Salieri's Azione pastorale, based on the Opera seria , was received rather cautiously at the premiere. According to contemporary reports, numerous mishaps during the premiere gave the heroic piece a rather comical character. Nonetheless, the Wienerische Diarium notes that the composition received “general approval” at the premiere. In July / August 1777 there was another series of performances of the work. Salieri seems to have appreciated this opera: Around 1780 he suggested a translation of the opera into German so that it could be performed by the troupe of the German National Singspiel in Vienna.
What is particularly interesting is the strong influence of Christoph Willibald Gluck's reform operas in Vienna, which manifests itself in similar instrumentation and dramaturgical design. Salieri deliberately bases the overture on that of Gluck's Paride ed Elena (1770), which Salieri must have known. A pantomime fight scene ( Lotta in a minor) is reminiscent of sequences from Gluck's ballet pantomimes.
A few years later (1782) Giuseppe Gherardeschi wrote an opera Daliso e Delmita .
The overture was recorded on CD by the Mannheim Mozart Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Fey and published in 2008.
literature
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Rudolph Angermüller : Antonio Salieri. His life and world with special reference to his great operas . Katzbichler, Munich 1971–74
- 1. List of works and sources . 1971, ISBN 3-87397-016-3
- 2. Vita and worldly works . 1974, ISBN 3-87397-019-8
- 3. Documents . 1972, ISBN 3-87397-021-X
- Rudolph Angermüller: Antonio Salieri. Documents of his life . Bock, Bad Honnef 2000, ISBN 3-87066-495-9
- 1. 1670-1786
- 2. 1787-1807
- 3. 1808-2000
- Vittorio Della Croce, Francesco Blanchetti: Il caso Salieri . Eda, Turin 1994 ( Collana “Realtà musicali” ).
- John A. Rice: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera . University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL et al. 1998, ISBN 0-226-71126-9 .
Web links
- Daliso e Delmita (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna