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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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) .
Web links
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Libretto (Italian), Vienna 1770. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center .