Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace

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Original title: Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace
Shape: Divertimento teatrale
Original language: Italian
Music: Antonio Salieri
Libretto : Giovanni Gastone Boccherini
Literary source: Miguel de Cervantes
Premiere: January 6, 1771
Place of premiere: Vienna, Burgtheater
Playing time: about 2 hours
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  • Gamace, groom Chitterias ( tenor )
  • Chitteria, bride Gamaces ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Don Chisciotte, Wandering Knight (tenor)
  • Sancio Pancia, his squire (tenor)
  • Menco, farmer ( soprano )
  • Lena, farmer's wife (soprano)
  • Il cavalier del Bosco (tenor)
  • Nasone, his squire ( bass )
  • Rosa, peasant woman (soprano)
  • Gnocco, head chef (tenor)
  • Alfeo, dancing farmer (silent role)
  • Giocondina, dancing peasant woman (silent role)
  • Cooks, farmers

Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Chichotte on the wedding of Gamace ) is a divertimento teatrale in two parts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini (based on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ). The world premiere took place on January 6, 1771 in the Vienna Burgtheater .

In this opera Salieri and Boccherini tried to create a hybrid of opera buffa and ballet . The rather short, simple plot of the piece was intended to provide the opportunity to switch on numerous dance scenes and ballet interludes that were choreographed by Jean Georges Noverre . The idea of ​​amalgamating the two genres, however, did not succeed, and opera and ballet remained separate units on the Viennese stage for a long time.

Many years later Salieri used the overture as the basis for the prelude to his comic opera Il mondo alla rovescia (premiered 1795) and for this purpose - in addition to many formal changes - provided it with a larger set of instruments (including additional clarinets, trumpets and timpani) .

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