Dramma giocoso

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Dramma giocoso (Italian; "funny drama") has been one of the many possible names for an opera buffa in Italy since the second half of the 18th century . The term was used regularly by Carlo Goldoni from 1748 onwards, suggests a mixture of opera buffa and opera seria staff and tries to circumvent the disdain for opera buffa, especially in courtly circles.

There are different types of roles in the fabrics of Goldoni and others: noblemen who are musically characterized in a manner close to the opera seria and country folks, old bachelors, maids and servants who have the comic-realistic side typical of the opera buffa in song and representation shape. In between there are often so-called parti di mezzo carattere (“simple” figures, see role subject ) such as the Cavaliere di Ripafratta in Antonio Salieri's La locandiera or Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni .

Individual evidence

1. ^ John A. Rice: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1998, ISBN 0-226-71125-0 , p. 204.